Date: August 19, 2004
Source: IESB.NET
Posted by: Robert Sanchez
Release Date: September 3, 2004
Studio: MGM
Director: Paul McGuigan
Screenwriter: Brandon Boyce
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Matthew Lillard, Rose Byrne, Diane Kruger, Christopher Cousins
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexuality and language)
Official Website: WickerParkmovie.com
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Synopsis: In the Wicker Park area of Chicago where he lives, from the window of the camera store where he works, Matthew sees a girl cross the street and is inexplicably drawn to her. When he sees her looking at a pair of shoes in the window of a store owned by his best friend, Luke, he finds a way to meet her and a romance begins that changes his entire life.
Matthew and the girl, Lisa, fall in love and their lives become intertwined. Then one day Matthew comes home to find Lisa gone. Vanished. The only clue he has comes from the director of her dance company, who informs Matthew that she has accepted an offer from a theatrical company in London. Did he mean so little to her that she’d leave without a word? Was any of part of their love real? The whirlwind of their romance, so recently rapturous, now sends his mind spinning into a dark vortex.
Two years pass as Matthew tries to reconstruct his life. Living again in his hometown of Chicago after a two-year stint in New York, he runs into his old friend Luke and tells him he’s been making a name for himself in the advertising business and is engaged to his boss’ younger sister. He also getting ready for an important trip to China to conclude a business deal.
Luke then tells Matthew of his love troubles with a girl he’s met and – uncharacteristically – hasn’t slept with, but remains infatuated with. The cloud of doubt and mystery of Lisa’s disappearance still hangs above Matthew, but he has made peace with his new life and seems ready to move on. Luke asks Matthew to call him when he’s back from China.
Then, in a restaurant waiting to meet his fiancée, Matthew thinks he sees Lisa. He tries to follow but loses her. Was it her? Faced with a dilemma, he has a decision to make: should he catch his plane, or should he abandon his business plans and stay to figure out what happened? He decides to stay in Chicago and pursue his passion rather than fulfill his obligations in China, perhaps even giving up the new life he has pledged his fiancée.
He knows it’s a decision that may change him forever. But Matthew is a man obsessed; he has to find Lisa. Only then might he be able to let her go.
Also, during his search, Matthew gets caught up in an affair with a beautiful stranger named Alex, and as he gets to know her better, something seems not quite right. Unbeknownst to Matthew, Alex is the girl Luke has been dating – and her motives are less than pure.Alex also has an obsession. His name is Matthew…
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