Phoebe In Wonderland

Synopsis: The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher, as her brilliant but anguished mother begins to worry for her daughter's health.

Genre: Drama

Director(s): Daniel Barnz

Actors: Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson, Elle Fanning, Bill Pullman

Production: ThinkFilm

1 win & 5 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.2
Metacritic:: 56
Rotten Tomatoes:: 60%

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: PG-13
Year:: 2008
: 96 min
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Happy birthday.
The next rule is:
"Good Job Jenny asks questions...
...only when it's time
for asking questions."
How will we know
when it's time for questions?
What did I just say
about asking questions?
But...
You may ask
when you can ask questions...
...when it's time
for asking questions.
Huh?
In this classroom,
we have some rules.
These are the same rules
we had last year.
Is that a question?
Class, what is the rule
about asking questions?
What do we know about
Good Job Jenny?
She deserves a slow
and painful death.
Anyone?
"'T was brillig...
"and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
"All mlmsy
were the borogoves...
...and the mome raths outgrabe."
That's Miss Dodger,
the new theater teacher.
Attend the tea party.
Writing?
Summoning the courage, failing.
Blackthorne's gonna publish me.
Oh, Peter.
It's a tiny academic press.
No, that's great.
Nobody'll read it.
It's great.
It is great.
It's the greatest thing
in the history of great.
I think you are.
Till I shrivel up
with resentment?
How was your day?
Good.
The girls?
Terrific.
I don't know
how you do it.
So yourwork examlnes
Alice in Wonderland?
Well, actually it's...it's...
"I have angst.
Sincerely, Olivia."
How does a seven-year-old
have angst?
You don't know the half of it.
Mozart was six when he wrote
his first opera.
I'm seven.
Well, he's only got a year
on you, sweetie.
You don't understand.
See?
A house of women
speaking their minds.
And...and her poetry,
it's like E.E. Cummings...
Phoebe too,
these rhythms and rhymes...
...and internal monologues.
You've never seen
anything like it.
Hillary is a terrific mother.
Mm, well...
Oh, no, please,
I insist, let me.
Thank you.
How's the book coming along?
Precarlous Enchantment.:
Wonderland and Perverslon,
right?
God, how awful.
So...
Well, sometimes I actually have time
to write a whole sentence.
Remember that next tlme
you cry, baby.
But don't you love
belng a mother?
God, yes.
Break your mother's back.
Step on a crack,
break your mother's back.
Step on a crack,
break your mother's back.
Step on a crack,
break your mother's back.
Is that a Patriot Girl doll
in your locker?
Katherine,
girl of strength and spirit...
...growing up in Philadelphia
during the American Revolution.
I had her.
I stuck needles
in her eyes.
I have Mary.
Mary, she's a Patriot Girl too,
except British.
She escaped the bombing
of London during World War II.
I know who she is.
She's a loser.
You think?
"You think?"
What are you looking for?
Money.
Yesterday I found a dollar.
I'm saving up
for Sings With Birds...
...the noble Sioux girl
growing up in 1732.
Do you want
my Katherine one?
Thanks, but I have it.
No!
No, don't touch me!
- No!
- I got you!
No, you didn't!
I'm not it!
Yes, you are.
No, you don't understand.
I can't be it.
Please don't make me be it.
Phoebe's it!
No!
I'm sorry.
Please don't tell.
Miss Reiter...
Phoebe spit at me!
Phoebe, it's only a game.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to.
Something's going on
with Phoebe.
Because she got upset
during tag?
She spat.
As I understand it,
all the other kids were running at her.
They were playing tag.
Exactly, it seems
pretty innocent to me.
It was the way it happened.
This is why little boys
who kiss little girls...
...get expelled
for sexual assault.
- All right, Hillary.
- No, I'm sorry.
It's just, we want
our kids to care...
...and then we worry
when they do.
We want them to show spirit,
and then punish it.
I really don't see
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