![]() ![]() The message can be a little heavy-handed but no less worthy: You never know what someone else is going through. Via’s estranged best friend (Danielle Rose Russell), meanwhile, comes off as a bit of a villain until we see the world through her troubled eyes. Her story is all the more touching because of her love for him she isn’t bitter so much as desperately lonely.Īuggie’s friend Jack (Noah Jupe) gets his own story, too, showing a sweet boy who nevertheless hesitated to get close to the new kid who looked different. “August is the sun,” she says of her brother in voice-over - everyone revolves around him. His sister Via (Izabela Vidovic) provides her equally shattering story of living in a house where she was mostly overlooked by a mother and father busy taking care of a sick child. Like the novel, the movie isn’t just the Auggie show. “Wonder” is complex, funny and – of course – a real cry-fest that looks at the very real burdens of being a kid. The result is not all anguish and bullying. Palacio’s beloved best-selling children’s novel. But noted child-whisperer Stephen Chbosky (“The Perks of Being a Wallflower”) directed the drama, mostly avoiding treacle with a script he co-adapted from R. ![]() In the wrong hands, “Wonder” could be a maudlin slog, filled with platitudes about treating others the way you want to be treated. ![]() Movie review: Yes, “Wonder” is the cry-fest you expect, but it’s also complex, funny and probing – The Denver Postĭale Robinette, LionsgateJacob Tremblay and Julia Roberts as Auggie and his mother in “Wonder.” ![]()
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