It stars Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano, Mark Webber, Danso Gordon, Novella Nelson and Alison Pill.

[3] In the small West Virginia mining town of Electric Park, a self-proclaimed teenage pacifist named Dick buys what he thinks is a toy gun.

When he learns from a co-worker that it is not a replica, but a functioning antique gun, the two form a friendship based around recreational target shooting and studying firearms history.

They treat their antique firearms as elaborate props, giving them names and backstories, playing games with them, and target shooting in an abandoned mining shaft that they decorate and call the Temple.

Dick's childhood nanny Clarabelle introduces him to her troubled grandson Sebastian, an African-American youth from out of town who is on probation for a weapons-related crime.

The film was shot on a custom-built studio lot in Copenhagen, but represents a small mining town in West Virginia, USA.

The website's critics consensus reads: "A film with numerous ideas but little grasp of how to effectively communicate them, Dear Wendy lacks the intelligence or insight that its difficult subject matter commands.