Next Stop Wonderland (1998) on Netflix
After Erin Castleton's boyfriend leaves, her mother places a personal ad for her in a Boston paper. She dates a string of strangers while plumber Alan Monteiro keeps passing close by.
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- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb6.5/105,384 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes73%
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Plot summary
In Boston, Erin Castleton's boyfriend Sean leaves her to join a Native American tribe's fight against a land development deal. Her mother, Piper, puts an embarrassing ad in the personals column of a local paper on her behalf. Erin is disgusted by it, then curious, and she starts meeting the men who answer the ad, looking for the right one. None of the dates goes well. Meanwhile Alan Monteiro, a plumber struggling to pay off his family's obligations, is chasing a career as a marine biologist. He and Erin keep crossing paths on the same Boston streets without ever meeting each other.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Next Stop Wonderland (1998)
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- Next Stop Wonderland cost $1 million to make, and after it became an audience favorite at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, a bidding war among studio distributors ended with Miramax Films paying $6 million for its North American distribution rights, six times its budget.
