Dreamchild (1985)
October 4, 1985Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Coral Browne
Alice Hargreaves
Ian Holm
Reverend Charles L. Dodgson
Peter Gallagher
Jack Dolan
Caris Corfman
Sally Mackeson
Nicola Cowper
Lucy
Jane Asher
Mrs. Liddell
Amelia Shankley
Little Alice
Imogen Boorman
Lorina
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Mr. Duckworth
James Wilby
Baker
Rupert Wainwright
Hargreaves
Shane Rimmer
Mr. Marl
William Hootkins
1st Radio Actor
Gavin Millar
Director
Alan Shearman
1st Reporter
Dennis Potter
Writer
Rick McCallum
Producer
Sam Douglas
4th Reporter
Ron Berglas
3rd Editor
Kenith Trodd
Producer
Steve Whitmire
Mock Turtle/Caterpillar
Stanley Myers
Composer
Fulton Mackay
Gryphon (voice)
Billy Williams
Cinematographer
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 4, 1985
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 34m
Content RatingPG
Genres
Wiki.
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.