The Wonder
- Release Date
- November 16, 2022
- Director
- Sebastián Lelio
- Cast
- Florence Pugh , Tom Burke , Kila Lord Cassidy , Niamh Algar , David Wilmot
- Runtime
- 1hr 48min
- Main Genre
- Thriller
- Studio
- Netflix, Element Pictures, Element, Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland
- Writers
- Alice Birch , Emma Donoghue , Sebastián Lelio
Summary
Set in The Irish Midlands in 1862, the story follows a young girl who stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O'Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. Is the village harbouring a saint 'surviving on manna from heaven' or are there more ominous motives at work?
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