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    Dreamchild (1985)

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    In 1932, 80-year-old Alice Liddell Hargreaves (Coral Browne) – the girl who inspired Lewis Carroll (the pen name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) to write Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass – travels to New York to attend a celebration of Carroll’s centenary.

    Confused by American culture and unable to understand the huge popularity of the books, Mrs Hargreaves begins to remember details of the childhood events that led to Carroll writing the stories. Ian Holm plays Carroll beautifully and Amelia Shankley plays the young Alice well.

    Thanks to Jim Henson and his workshop the Mock Turtle, the Dormouse, March Hare and others achieve frightening realistic (and grotesque) shape as they appear to old Alice.

    Dennis Potter wrote it so it’s quite dark in places with plotlines involving older men and their advances towards younger females.

    Alice Liddell Hargreaves
    Coral Browne
    Reverend Charles L. Dodgson/Lewis Carroll
    Ian Holm
    Jack Dolan
    Peter Gallagher
    Sally Mackeson
    Caris Corfman
    Lucy
    Nicola Cowper
    Mrs Liddell
    Jane Asher
    Little Alice
    Amelia Shankley
    Lorina
    Imogen Boorman
    Edith
    Emma King
    Hargreaves
    Rupert Wainwright
    Mr Duckworth
    Roger Ashton-Griffiths
    Baker
    James Wilby
    Mr Marl
    Shane Rimmer
    Gryphon
    Ron Mueck
    Gryphon (voice)
    Fulton Mackay
    Mock Turtle/Caterpillar
    Steve Whitmire
    Mock Turtle (voice)
    Alan Bennett
    Caterpillar (voice)
    Frank Middlemass
    Dormouse
    Karen Prell
    Dormouse (voice)
    Julie Walters
    March Hare
    Michael Sundin
    March Hare (voice)
    Ken Campbell
    Mad Hatter
    Mick Walter
    Mad Hatter (voice)
    Tony Haygarth

    Director
    Gavin Millar

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