To the Wonder - BLU-RAY

Neil (Ben Affleck) is an American traveling in Europe who meets and falls in love with Marina (Olga Kurylenko), an Ukrainian divorcee who is raising her 10-year-old daughter Tatiana in Paris. The lovers travel to Mont St. Michel, the island abbey off the coast of Normandy, basking in the wonder of their newfound romance. Neil makes a commitment to Marina, inviting her to relocate to his native Oklahoma with Tatiana. He takes a job as an environmental inspector and Marina settles into her new life in America with passion and vigor. After a holding pattern, their relationship cools. Marina finds solace in the company of another exile, the Catholic priest Father Quintana (Javier Bardem), who is undergoing a crisis of faith. Work pressures and increasing doubt pull Neil further apart from Marina, who returns to France with Tatiana when her visa expires. Neil reconnects with Jane (Rachel McAdams), an old flame. They fall in love until Neil learns that Marina has fallen on hard times. Gripped by a sense of responsibility and his own crisis of faith he rekindles with Marina after another trip to France. She returns with him to Oklahoma, resuming her American life. But the old sorrows eventually return.

Home-schooled because of a genetic disorder that required multiple facial surgeries, 10-year-old Auggie Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) went along with the wishes of his parents (Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson) that he experience life in the world, as he entered a prep school for fifth grade. The often painful but determined journey he faced to gain his classmates' gradual acceptance propels this uplifting and popular adaptation of the R.J. Palacio kidlit favorite. Mandy Patinkin, Daveed Diggs, Izabela Vidovic also star. 113 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks English, DVS, French, Spanish; Subtitles English (SDH), Spanish; audio commentary; music video; featurette; theatrical trailers. Two-disc set.

Home-schooled because of a genetic disorder that required multiple facial surgeries, 10-year-old Auggie Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) went along with the wishes of his parents (Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson) that he experience life in the world, as he entered a prep school for fifth grade. The often painful but determined journey he faced to gain his classmates' gradual acceptance propels this uplifting and popular adaptation of the R.J. Palacio kidlit favorite; Mandy Patinkin, Daveed Diggs, Izabela Vidovic also star. 113 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.