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4 October 1985 (USA) morePlot:
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 6 wins & 4 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Streep Noms, #6 (1985) (From FilmExperience. 26 June 2009, 10:15 AM, PDT)
The Curious Case of the White Queen
(From FilmExperience. 2 March 2009, 5:30 AM, PST)
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Wishing for the DVD moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Coral Browne | ... | Alice Hargreaves |
 | Ian Holm | ... | Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) |
 | Peter Gallagher | ... | Jack Dolan |
| Nicola Cowper | ... | Lucy |
| Jane Asher | ... | Mrs. Liddell |
| Amelia Shankley | ... | Little Alice |
| Imogen Boorman | ... | Lorina |
| Emma King | ... | Edith |
| Rupert Wainwright | ... | Hargreaves |
 | Roger Ashton-Griffiths | ... | Mr. Duckworth |
| James Wilby | ... | Baker |
| Shane Rimmer | ... | Mr. Marl |
| Peter Whitman | ... | Radio Producer |
| Ken Campbell | ... | Sound Effects Guy / March Hare (voice) |
 | William Hootkins | ... | 1st Radio Actor |
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94 minCountry:
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MonoFilming Locations:
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UKFun Stuff
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Two of Liddell children who also spent time with Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) are not mentioned, Alice's older brother Harry and her baby sister Rhoda. Around the time when she met Hargreaves (the man she later married) there was another edition to the family, the last child Violet. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: During the tea dance Jack and Lucy waltz to "I Only Have Eyes For You." The scene is set in 1932, but the song was not written until 1934. moreFAQ
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This is both a beautiful and disturbing film. Ian Holm (recently playing Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings trilogy) plays the Reverend Dodgson whom the world better knows as Lewis Carroll. Holm expertly dances on the razor's edge of Dodgson's obsession with the youngest of the three Liddle sisters. This is all experienced in recollections of the elderly Alice as she crosses the Atlantic to attend a 100th Birthday Celebration of Lewis Carroll. As she nears the end of her voyage, her dreams start to bleed into her realities. The Wonderland characters are perfectly grotesque Muppet versions performed by Jim Hemson's Creature Shop (we're not talking Kermit nor Miss Piggy here). This is based on the true people and is lovingly interwoven into a fictional account of the true voyage Alice Liddle Hargraves made to Oxford University in 1932. If you're lucky to have the VHS tape, guard it with your life, mine was destroyed and I can only pray this film will be transfered to DVD. Though we're talking Alice in Wonderland and Muppets, this is not a film for those under 17.