Dreamchild (1985)

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Directed by

Gavin Millar

Starring (View all)

Coral Browne
Alice Hargreaves

Ian Holm
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll

Peter Gallagher
Jack Dolan

Caris Corfman
Sally Mackeson

Nicola Cowper
Lucy

Jane Asher
Mrs. Liddell

Amelia Shankley
Little Alice

Imogen Boorman
Lorina

Written by

Dennis Potter
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Description: Interpretation of the true event in which Alice Liddel, the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, travels in her 80's to New York University to attend a hundred year birthday celebration for Lewis Carrol, the pseudonym for Charles Dodgson. Her bewilderment at the hoopla around Charles' bizarre gift to her is mirrored in darker fantasy segments (starring Jim Henson muppetry) in which Wonderland characters haunt and taunt her. ... (more)

Release date: 4 October 1985

Tags: Fantasy (3), Alice In Wonderland (3), Drama (2), New York (2), England (2), Innocence (2), Alice Liddell (1), MMG (1), Dreaming (1), Storyteller (1), Spiritual Cinema (1), Victorian Era (1), NYC (1), Illness (1), 1930s (1), Puppets (1), 1985 (1), 1980s (1), Relationships (1), Story (1)

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Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 80’s (1473 movies items)

" Dreamchild is a 1985 British drama film written by Dennis Potter, directed by Gavin Millar, and produced by Rick McCallum and Kenith Trodd. The film, starring Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper and Amelia Shankley, is a fictionalised account of Alice Liddell, the child who inspired Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The film, featured earlier performances by Julie Walters and Peter Gallagher, Dreamchild made the ten-best lists of many critics. "