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{{movie|date=January, [[1986]]|runtime=94 minutes|director=[[Gavin Millar]]|writer=[[Dennis Potter]]|composer=[[Max Harris]], [[Stanley Myers]]|studio=[[Emi Films Ltd]]|rating=PG}} |
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| − | '''Dreamchild''' tells the story of author [[Lewis Carroll]] and his relationship with young Alice Liddell. Liddell 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 on an elderly Alice, now Mrs. Alice Hargreaves, visiting the United States for a Lewis Carroll centenary event, who flashes back to her friendship with Carroll, and is haunted by dreams of meeting the characters from ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. |
+ | '''Dreamchild''' tells the fictionalized story of author [[Lewis Carroll]] and his relationship with young Alice Liddell. Liddell was, by some accounts, 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 on an elderly Alice, now Mrs. Alice Hargreaves, visiting the United States for a Lewis Carroll centenary event, who flashes back to her friendship with Carroll, and is haunted by dreams of meeting the characters from ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. |
[[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]], [[the Caterpillar (Dreamchild)|the Caterpillar]], and [[the March Hare (Dreamchild)|the March Hare]]. |
[[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]], [[the Caterpillar (Dreamchild)|the Caterpillar]], and [[the March Hare (Dreamchild)|the March Hare]]. |
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Revision as of 17:10, 31 August 2006
Dreamchild title card.
| Released | January, 1986 |
| Duration | 94 minutes |
| Director | Gavin Millar |
| Written by | Dennis Potter |
| Music | Max Harris, Stanley Myers |
| Studio | Emi Films Ltd |
| Rated | PG |
Dreamchild tells the fictionalized story of author Lewis Carroll and his relationship with young Alice Liddell. Liddell was, by some accounts, 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 on an elderly Alice, now Mrs. Alice Hargreaves, visiting the United States for a Lewis Carroll centenary event, who flashes back to her friendship with Carroll, and is haunted by dreams of meeting the characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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, the Caterpillar, and the March Hare.
Dreamchild is notable for being the first film project the Creature Shop worked on outside of the Henson company.
Cast
- Coral Browne: Alice Hargreaves
- Peter Gallagher: Jack Dolan
- Ian Holm: Reverend Charles L. Dodgson
- Jane Asher: Mrs. Liddell
- Nicola Cowper: Lucy
- Caris Corfman: Sally
- Amelia Shankley: Young Alice
Voice Cast
- Fulton MacKay: the Gryphon
- Alan Bennett: the Mock Turtle
- Julie Walters: the Dormouse
- Kenneth Campbell: the March Hare
- Tony Haygarth: the Mad Hatter
- Frank Middlemass: the Caterpillar
Puppeteers
- Ron Mueck: the Gryphon
- Steve Whitmire: the Mock Turtle / the Caterpillar
- Karen Prell: the Dormouse
- Big Mick: the Mad Hatter
- Michael Sundin: the March Hare
Cable Control Operators
- David Barclay
- Lyle Conway
- Sadie Corrie
- Chris Eveleigh
- Richard Jones
- Lesja Liber
- Michael Osborn
- Chris Ostwald
- Mike Quinn
- Neal Scanlan
- John Stephenson
- Melissa Whitmire
- Cas Willing