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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 2005 DVD Release: 03/21/2006 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 40 mins Studio: Fox Lorber Members Wishing: 7 Genres: Drama, Melodrama, Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film

The contradictions of America's simultaneous love and fear of violence go under the microscope in this drama from Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg. Dick (Jamie Bell) is a timid young man growing up in a mining town where he's been deemed to frail to work with the other men. Dick is given a toy gun by a girl who works in a dime store, and he becomes fascinated with the weapon -- especially when it becomes clear that the gun isn't a toy after all. Dick and a handful of other local misfits who are also interested in guns form a gang called "the Dandies," a band of self-styled pacifists who make it their policy to never use their weapons as they lead the town's young people by example. However, as their obsession with firearms grows, Dick and his fellow Dandies are approached by local police chief Krugsby (Bill Pullman), who asks them to look after Sebastian (Danso Gordon), the violent son of Dick's maid Clarabelle (Novella Nelson). At first, the Dandies see this as a challenge to bring Sebastian over to the cause of nonviolence, but soon his influence begins to impact Dick and his compatriots, with devastating results. Scripted by Lars von Trier, Dear Wendy received its North American premiere at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Jamie Bell - Dick
Bill Pullman - Krugsby
Michael Angarano - Freddie
Danso Gordon - Sebastian
Novella Nelson - Clarabelle
Chris Owen - Huey
Alison Pill - Susan
Mark Webber - Stevie

An orphaned pacifist living in a small mining community forms a love affair with a gun in this drama directed by Thomas Vinterberg and featuring a screenplay by Lars von Trier. Despite his distain for violence, Dick (Jamie Bell) is fascinated by an antique gun he has mistaken for a toy, and soon purchases the weapon. A soft boy who lives under the care of his family's African-American maid, Clarabelle (Novella Nelson), Dick names his gun Wendy and soon forms a group of like-minded firearm enthusiasts who meet regularly in a local abandoned mine and refer to themselves as "the Dandies." Though the Dandies all pack heat, they have vowed never to draw their weapons, and view their guns more as works of art than machines of murder. When town sheriff Krugsby (Bill Pullman) requests that Dick keep an eye on Clarabelle's criminally minded son, Sebastian (Danso Gordon), Dick's seemingly innocent obsession threatens to transform him in a way he never anticipated. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide