With three words in the closing credits of “Wonderstruck,” director Todd Haynes let the world know there is a major new talent in movies.
Simmonds, a young actor from Bountiful, makes her movie debut in “Wonderstruck” and does so gloriously. She plays Rose, a deaf child in the 1920s who runs away to New York City to find a stage and silent-movie star (Julianne Moore). Rose’s adventure is intercut with the story of Ben (Oakes Fegley), a boy in the 1970s who, after an accident that leaves him deaf, runs away to New York to solve the mystery of who his father was.