The Morning After (1986 film)
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- “Dreamchild” is a remarkable film in many ways, not least because it gives itself such freedom of style and subject matter. For example, all of the creatures in Alice’s fantasies appear as muppetlike creations done by Jim Henson and his Creature Shop, but they are not Muppets. The movie has some subtle points to make with them.
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The newspaper world of New York in the 1930s is re-created with style and humor, and the love story between the two young people is handled with a lot of cheerful energy. “Dreamchild” is an ambitious movie that tries to do a lot of things, and does most of them surprisingly well.
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Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves (Coral Browne) is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of legendary fantasy author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had a close ...
- (13)
- Gavin Millar
- PG
- Coral Browne
Dreamchild is a 1985 British drama film written by Dennis Potter, directed by Gavin Millar, and produced by Rick McCallum and Kenith Trodd. [5] 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 ...
The Jim Henson fabrications of the Wonderland characters are more horrific than whimsical and the direction feels like a TV film, but the attempt is noteworthy. Full Review | Original Score:...
Dreamchild: Directed by Gavin Millar. With Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Caris Corfman. Ian Holm is children's author Lewis Carroll in this poignant fantasy-drama set in 1930s New York and populated by the fabulous special effects creatures of Muppet master Jim Henson.
- (1.8K)
- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- Gavin Millar
- 1985-10-04
Dreamchild is a film about an 80-year-old Alice Liddell (the real Alice of In Wonderland fame). She’s traveling to America as part of a centenary celebration of Lewis Carroll’s birth. There, the repeated intrusions of the press and her own troubled subconscious return her to the days of her childhood, and memories that have long confused and…
Oct 4, 1985 · Delightful comedy-fantasy about ``Alice in Wonderland'' heroine on Carroll centenary visit to New York. Original and holding.
