Wonder Wheel
Come along for the ride.
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Country
Production
Budget
$25 000 000
Box office
$15 889 124
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Letty Aronson, Edward Walson, Erika Aronson, Adam B. Stern, Ron Chez, Mark Attanasio
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Santo Loquasto, Jeffrey D. McDonald, Hugh Landwehr
Audition
Patricia Kerrigan DiCerto
Editing
Alisa Lepselter
Whole Team (128)
Whole Team (128)
Short description
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, 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.
What's left behind the scenes
- With the exception of the interiors of Ginny and Hampty’s apartment (played by Kate Winslet and James Belushi), the entire film was shot on Coney Island. The storefronts and signs of the shops there were changed to those that existed in the 1950s.
- Many of the costumes worn by the extras belonged to people from the era depicted in the film. They were collected by costume designer Suzie Benzinger.
- Costume designer Suzie Benzinger had trouble with the costume for Mickey, played by Justin Timberlake, as almost no photographs of lifeguard costumes from Coney Island from that era had survived, and those that remained were incomprehensible. Eventually, she reached out to Marty Olvin – a former Coney Island lifeguard who gave an interview to Esquire magazine in 1949.
- With the exception of the interiors of Ginny and Humpty's apartment (played by Kate Winslet and James Belushi), the entire film was shot on the Coney Island peninsula. The storefronts and signs of the shops there were replaced with those from the 1950s.
- Many of the costumes worn by the extras belonged to people from the era depicted in the film. They were collected by costume designer Susie Benzinger.
- Costume designer Susie Benzinger faced difficulties with the costume for Mickey, played by Justin Timberlake, as almost no photographs of Coney Island lifeguards from that time had survived, and the remaining ones were unclear. Eventually, she tracked down Marty Olwin—a former Coney Island lifeguard who had given an interview to Esquire magazine in 1949.
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