Land of Plenty Page #4

Synopsis: The American daughter of missionaries Lana returns to Los Angeles from Palestine to work in a mission helping homeless people. Lana was born in Ohio and raised in South Africa and Middle East, and she is an authentic citizen of the world, connected through Internet and aware of how other people see the lack of culture and knowledge and exaggerated patriotism of average American people. Her unique relative is her unknown uncle Paul, a veteran of Vietnam War that cut relationships with his family and is bigot and paranoid. Paul lives in a surveillance van, lives as if he were a secret agent, sees conspiracy and terrorist cells everywhere, and has a great prejudice against Arabs and other non-American breeds after the September, 11th. They meet each other, and when they see the murder of a poor Pakistanis nearby the mission, they travel together to the small town of Trone to deliver his corpse to the family, where Paul sees a different reality.
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Wim Wenders
Production: IFC Films
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
NOT RATED
Year:
2004
123 min
107 Views


the food service

and the sermons vary,

but the mission is pretty much

open all the time.

Is that right?

Yeah.

Thanks.

I remember you, you know.

And, uh, and I really

wanna see you again,

Uncle Paul, even if...

Listen, um,

I needed some information, okay?

And... you helped me out,

I appreciate that.

If I can ever do anything for you,

let me know...

F***!

We went to the wall today,

they shot rubber bullets

and some tear gas,

but no one was hurt.

And get this:

there were nearly as

many Israelis protesting

the wall as there

we're Palestinians!

Now that sounds promising!

I wish there was more

awareness here.

A lot of people don't

even know it's happening.

Which is why you're going to

become a writer!

Why be just one more person trying

to change the world when you can

write something that

will cause a 1000 to try!!!

Have you heard

anything from my...

And before you change

the subject,

I saw your Dad yesterday

and he's totally fine.

He's back to his

old cranky self,

running the mission

like a general,

and (I'm not supposed to

tell you this part)

calling Henry every day

to see how you're doing.

Thanks for the update.

You have no idea how good

it is to hear that.

And how about

"ooh la la" Itzhak?

Itzhak who?

I've never heard of him.

Okay. Yish-mor-cha Eha-el...

love, Yael.

God bless you too, Lana.

Aah!

Aah! Mmmh!

What's the matter, Jeffries?

Napalm getting' to you?

Somebody get Polly here an APC

for his god-damn menstrual cramps.

Don't you get sick on

me now, Jeffries!

Charlie's not sick hiding in

that rat-hole.

There wasn't anybody sick

in Boston on September tenth,

I can guarantee that...

In Washington and Newark...

they weren't sick and tired.

They were preparing,

god damn it!

Go ahead and laugh,

you f***ing cowards!

Come on, laugh,

you f***ing,

lousy f***ing Chuck!

You pull a box cutter on me,

motherf***er!

We'll see what happens...

Just one of those planes!

If I had just been

on one of 'em!

Where the hell was everybody?

This country's been good to me...

This beautiful country...

Oh God!

grateful to you...

You know how scared I am.

I'm way out of my depths here.

Yesterday I was still in the

West Bank, and then...

all of a sudden I'm here,

in my own country, but it

feels so strange.

You gotta back me up on

this one, God,

even if I'm wrong.

I know that I need help.

I know that I can't

do it on my own.

Do WHAT on my own?

I don't even know why

I'm here, in America.

To deliver a letter?

There must be more to it,

it's not just for Mom...

I don't have to be afraid.

I know that you're with me.

And I know that

you're always there,

with your arms

stretched out wide.

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Wim Wenders

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (German: [vɪm vɛndɐs]; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, and a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about Cuban music culture, Pina (2011), about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch, and The Salt of the Earth (2014), about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. One of Wenders' earliest honors was a win for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for his narrative drama Paris, Texas (1984), which also won the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. Many of his subsequent films have also been recognized at Cannes, including Wings of Desire (1987), for which Wenders won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin since 1996. Alongside filmmaking, he is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered to be an auteur director. more…

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