Dreamchild (1985)

Directed by

Gavin Millar

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly Alice Liddell travels to 1930s New York to accept an honorary degree. As she navigates the city with a young orphan companion, she recalls her childhood with Lewis Carroll and reconciles her complicated memories.

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What happens

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 story is told from the point of view of an elderly Alice (now the widowed Mrs. Hargreaves) as she travels to the United States from England to receive an honorary degree from Columbia University celebrating the centenary of Carroll's birth. It shares common themes with Potter's television play Alice (1965). The film evolves from the factual to the hallucinatory as Alice revisits her memories of the Reverend Charles Dodgson (Holm), in Victorian-era Oxford to her immediate present in Depression-era New York. Accompanied by a shy young orphan named Lucy (Cowper), old Alice must make her way through the modern world of tabloid journalism and commercial exploitation while attempting to come to peace with her conflicted childhood with the Oxford don. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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