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WONDERS ARE MANY

By | January 2007

2007 SUNDANCE SPECTRUM FEATURE! The film oddly attempts to combine the backstage production footage with history-lesson segments featuring voice-of-god narration by Eric Owens. While skillfully crafted, the two stories never quite mesh, and neither go deep enough to work on their own…

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