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starring: Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper, Jane Asherdirected by: Gavin Millar
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302717655
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302717655
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 7845
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: October 04, 1985
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Amazon.com:
This 1985 film from Britain offers up the only possible reason the extraordinary British writer Dennis Potter could be involved with a project also featuring the talents of Jim Henson's Muppets. The subject is the awkward relationship between Charles Dodgson (Ian Holm), better known to the world as Lewis Carroll, and Alice Liddell (played by Coral Browne as an adult), as it was in the 19th century when Liddell inspired Carroll to create Alice In Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. The full account of that bond is finally told by Alice in 1932, as she arrives in New York City to participate in the 100th anniversary of Dodgson's birth. Flustered by press and public attention, Alice releases her repressed memories from that time, and Henson's factory does a wonderful job creating bold realizations of the author's characters and settings. Both dark and light, Dreamchild is a mesmerizing spectacle with inner portraits of two quite dissimilar but equally vulnerable people. Holm is excellent as the stammering, often ridiculed Dodgson. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - An Unsual Take
The centenary of Lewis Carroll's death is fast approaching, and the inspiration for Alice (Coral Browne) is coming to America for the festivities. She is a proper old woman with a sharp tongue and with very little interest in revisiting her childhood memories. It is only when an out of work reporter (David Gallagher) enters the picture that she decides to open up, and then only because she is paid for it. The memories are painful because of the strange fascination that Carroll (Ian Holm) had for ... Read More
Rating:  - A dissertation on childhood memory suppression
I'm surprised to read some of the reviews here; I saw this movie when it came out, and it struck me as one of the most elegant and clever treatises on molestation-survivor memory suppression. Perhaps I imbued the film with a darker agenda than it actually had, but I don't think so.
The way it unfolded for me, older Alice's increasing anxiety as she nears New York City and the Lewis Carroll tribute is caused by the fact that she is forced to reminisce about her childhood relationship ... Read More
Rating: - Alice in WonderFilm
A picturesque and thoughtful movie for grownups whose plot shifts effortlessly between three venues: the 1860s when Lewis Carroll introduced the Wonderland tales to young, dark-haired Alice Liddell and her sisters - the 1930s when the aged Alice Liddell Hargreaves visited the U.S. just months before her death - and the surreal story-world of Alice in Wonderland with the characters that Alice meets portrayed by wickedly designed Jim Henson puppets.
Four affecting performances stand out ... Read More
Rating: - Gone but not forgotten...
A very nice effort from Dennis Potter (the writer) and especially Coral Browne (the wife of Vincent Price) - a very young and handsome Peter Gallagher is quite fine as well. The story is engrossing and the Jim Henson puppet creations are odd and exceptional. Was the reverend a pedophile? Or does the attention that he lavishes on "Alice" represent a deeper connection? Might one go so far as to call it love? Whatever your conclusion - you will love this now-nearly-forgotten gem!
Rating: - Who cares for you? You're nothing but a pack of cards!
Let me start by simply saying that the reaction I had viewing this film was unlike any other viewing experience I can recall. Although I found it well written and produced, I was so disappointed by the 2/3's point that I almost stopped watching. Yet by the end I was absolutely embracing the whole thing. So if you are a Lewis Carroll fan keep an open mind and watch the whole thing, you may find the whole much greater than the sum of its parts. And you may even find yourself willing to accept the historical ... Read More
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