Wonder Wheel

On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator, his beleaguered wife, and the visitor who turns their lives upside-down.

Wonder Wheel
United States 2017
  • Czech
101 min.
12+
  • This film is available in the following territories: Czechia, Slovakia.
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A drama set in New York City in the late 1950s. It tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey Rubin, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.

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  • This film is available in the following territories: Czechia, Slovakia.