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 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.
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.