Dreamchild

Release date: January 1986

Directed by: Gavan Millar

Written by: Dennis Potter

MPAA Rating: PG

Dreamchild tells the story of author Lewis Carroll and his relationship with young Alice Liddell Hargreaves. Hargreaves was the inspiration for the title character of Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. The film focuses an elderly Alice, who flashes back to her friendship with Carroll, and is haunted by dreams of meeting the characters from the books.

Jim Henson's Creature Shop was employed for the dream sequences, building lifelike puppets of characters like the Gryphon, the Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse, and the March Hare.

Dreamchild is notable for being the first film the Creature Shop worked on for a project outside the Henson company.