The Wonder Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

The Irish Midlands, 1862 - a young girl 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?

Drama Thriller Adaptation Psychological

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in The Wonder.

• F
  Florence Pugh

  Thunderbolts, We Live in Time

• T
  Tom Burke

  Black Bag, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

• N
  Niamh Algar

  Censor, The Shadow Of Violence

• E
  Elaine Cassidy

  My Boy, The Program

• K
  Kíla Lord Cassidy

• 
  Toby Jones

  Filth, Alice Through the Looking Glass

• 
  Ciaran Hinds

  Small Things Like These, In The Land of Saints and Sinners

• D
  Dermot Crowley

  Luther, Luther: The Fallen Sun

• B
  Brian F. O'Byrne

  Sergio, The International

• D
  David Wilmot

  Lies We Tell, '71

Crew Behind the Film

The The Wonder behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Sebastian Lelio last directed Gloria Bell and Disobedience. The film's writer Emma Donoghue last wrote Room and Frog Music.

Director

Sebastian Lelio

Screenwriters

Emma Donoghue
Sebastian Lelio
Alice Birch

Producers

Ed Guiney
Juliette Howell
Andrew Lowe
Tessa Ross

Additional Information

All Trailers

Official The Wonder movie trailers and clips.

Production Details

What we know about the The Wonder movie production.

Key Facts

• Inspired by the 19th century phenomenon of the "fasting girls" and adapted from the acclaimed novel by Emma Donoghue (Room).

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