Now playing in theaters and available on demand and digital platforms. And that makes it kind of a drag at times, despite the energy director Mullen puts into the scenario’s depiction. This, despite the poignant notes added to the movie by Heather Graham as Arthur’s confidante, doesn’t. The emphasis on the protagonist’s wobbly state of mind is necessary, to be sure, but a not dissimilar exercise, like Christopher Nolan’s “ Memento,” was better than satisfactory because it also had a very fully fleshed out story. Arthur’s investigation is less a procedure than a stumbling, and the information parceled out as he makes his way is sketchy. And here’s where one of its problems starts manifesting itself. OR WAS IT, the movie wants you to ask, right up to the very end. One that goes off when she tried to check out of Wander. And soon we learn the shot we heard wasn’t a gun-it was an exploding chip implanted surgically into the victim’s chest. But Jimmy goads him into checking out the desolate town of Wander-the death happened right outside the city limits. He doesn’t want to, because he’s, you know, paranoid. The mother of the dead woman calls Arthur’s show and asks him to investigate the death. The key is that shot we heard in the first scene. (They can’t just be blowhard hucksters.) Except as the movie goes on, it turns out they’re not delusions. And so they are-that’s the Hollywood way with these types. At first it seems his delusions are the product of Terrible Grief. Eckhart’s Arthur seems the more compulsively paranoid of the two. Also because their roles are unusual: They’re the hosts of a podcast investigating conspiracy theories, broadcasting from near their RVs in the remotest of locales, the better to avoid detection. Not just because they’re played by Aaron Eckhart and Tommy Lee Jones, respectively. The Wanderers is a 1979 American comedy-drama film, directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from a novel of the same name by Richard Price, centering on the. “Wander” does pick up when we meet Arthur and Jimmy. Let’s do this.” And “This is outta control.” And “Not my job.” And “All of you.” It’s like there’s this Cop-Talk Bot that screenwriters cede power to when they’re feeling uninspired. You may start feeling deflated as soon as the authorities show up, and start saying things like “Calvary’s here? All right. Somewhere in Northwestern 19th Century America, a widower named Matt (Mitchum) finishes a prison stint for murder and sets off in search of his nine-year-old son (Tommy Rettig).He finds the boy. A startling opening, and while “Wander” has other discrete bits of tension and jarring violence, the movie doesn’t entirely live up to it.
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