Wonder(2017)

Plot Summary

• August "Auggie" Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) is a fifth-grade boy living in North River Heights in upper Manhattan. He has a rare medical facial deformity, which he refers to as "Mandibulofacial Dysostosis." Due to numerous surgeries, Auggie had been home-schooled by his mother Isabel (Julia Roberts), but as Auggie is approaching middle school age, Isabel and Nate (Owen Wilson) decide to enroll him in Beecher Prep, a private school, for the start of middle school. At first, Auggie is ostracized by nearly all the student body, but he is soon befriended by a boy named Jack Will (Noah Jupe).During Halloween, Auggie wears an old GhostFace mask and costume because his dog, Daisy, threw up on his Boba Fett costume. Unrecognized, he walks around school knowing he would not get tormented while incognito. As he walks through the door to his homeroom, he overhears Jack telling Julian Albans (Bryce Gheisar) that he was only pretending to be friends with Auggie. Feeling betrayed, Auggie wants to quit Beecher Prep and go back to homeschooling, but his older sister Olivia (Izabela Vidovic), nicknamed "Via," talks him out of it. Auggie later confides the incident to another friend, a girl named Summer (Millie Davis), but swears her to secrecy.When Jack notices that Auggie has become quiet and distant he asks Summer why, but she only gives him the term "Ghost Face" as a clue; Jack is shocked when it suddenly dawns on him that it was Auggie wearing the GhostFace costume, and thus had overheard everything he said to Julian. When Julian calls Auggie a "freak," Jack angrily punches him in the face and a fight ensues between the two, which is soon broken up by Mr. Browne (Daveed Diggs) and Ms. Petosa (Ali Liebert). Jack is suspended for two days and writes an apology letter to Mr. Tushman. Auggie, over winter break, requests Jack's Minecraft coordinates, which Jack sends. Jack apologizes to Auggie, and Auggie accepts.During the rest of the school year, Auggie is repeatedly harassed by Julian and his group; they leave hurtful notes on his desk and tape to his locker their class picture with Auggie photo-shopped out. When Mr. Tushman (Mandy Patinkin) later confronts Julian and his parents using all the notes and the doctored picture as evidence, Julian's mother proclaims that she had had Auggie edited out of the photo to make it look more presentable to her friends at home; she then says that the school should not be inclusive and that Auggie does not belong there. But despite her threats to pull their funding from the school, Tushman suspends Julian for two days.Julian apologizes to Tushman for harassing Auggie as his mother drags him out the door. Meanwhile, Via signs up for Drama Club at her high school after her best friend, Miranda (Danielle Rose Russell), ignores her; in the process, she meets Justin (Nadji Jeter), a friendly boy with whom she forms a close friendship, which later develops into a romantic relationship. Later, Via is selected to be an understudy for the lead role in the school's production of Our Town, with Justin as the lead actor.Later on, Isabel and Nate find out that Via's play is coming around, and Via never told them about it, and they get into a fight with Auggie overhearing everything. Via accuses Isabel of now suddenly being interested in her life, now that Auggie is in school. She blames Isabel's own personal failures for her insecurity. Auggie later confronts his mom and his sister, who brush it off. Auggie then accuses them of lying and storms off to his room (He feels that its because Via doesn't want her school friends to know that Auggie is her brother), and then Daisy starts to whimper. Via then rushes up to Auggie's room telling him that Daisy is sick. They say goodbye to Isabel who meets Nate at the hospital. They then return that night without the dog, implying that Daisy was put to sleep.On the night of the play, Miranda, the lead actress and Via's former best friend, pretends to fall ill (she does this because her own parents don't turn up for her performance, but she finds out that Via's entire family is in the audience ready to cheer Miranda and Via). Via takes her place and gives a performance that earns her a standing ovation. After the play, everyone, including Miranda and Justin, go home to the Pullmans and eat pizza to celebrate.During a school trip to a nature reserve, when Auggie and Jack are accosted and threatened by a group of seventh graders from another school, several of their classmates come to their defense. At the year's end during the graduation ceremony, Tushman announces that Auggie has been selected for the Henry Ward Beecher Medal for standing out; Auggie receives a standing ovation, and the movie ends with everyone applauding Auggie, and Isabel commenting on him being a wonder.

Storyline

• Based on the New York Times bestseller, "Wonder" tells the incredibly inspiring, heartwarming story of August Pullman. Born with facial differences that, up until now, have prevented him from going to a mainstream school, Auggie becomes the most unlikely of heroes when he enters the local fifth grade. As his family, his new classmates, and the larger community all struggle to discover their compassion and acceptance, Auggie's extraordinary journey will unite them all and prove you can't blend in when you were born to stand out. — Lionsgate August "Auggie" Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) is a 10-year-old boy living in North River Heights in upper Manhattan, New York, with his mother Isabel (Julia Roberts), father Nate (Owen Wilson), older sister Olivia "Via" (Izabela Vidovic), and dog Daisy. He has a rare medical facial deformity, which he refers to as "mandibulofacial", and has undergone 27 different surgeries as a result. Auggie has been home-schooled, but as he approaches fifth grade, his parents decide to enroll him in Beecher Prep, a private school. Before the school year begins, Auggie meets with Mr. Tushman (Mandy Patinkin), the principal, who arranges a tour for him with three other students: Jack Will (Noah Jupe), Julian Albans (Bryce Gheisar), and Charlotte Cody (Elle McKinnon). When school starts, Auggie is initially ostracized by nearly the entire student body, but soon forms a close friendship with Jack.