Dreamchild

1985

Action / Biography / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 79% · 13 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 1912 1.9K

new york city 19th century 1930s caterpillar lewis carroll elderly lady

Plot summary

Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had a close friendship with the writer, and their relationship was the creative catalyst for Carroll's most beloved work. However, as Alice reflects on her experiences with the author, she realizes the complexity of their bond has had lasting, deeply felt ramifications.

Director

Gavin Millar Photo
Gavin Millar

Top cast

Tony Haygarth Photo
Tony Haygarth as Mad Hatter
Steve Whitmire Photo
Steve Whitmire as Mock Turtle / Caterpillar
Ian Holm Photo
Ian Holm as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
Julie Walters Photo
Julie Walters as Dormouse
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
867.2 MB
1280*690
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 2
1.57 GB
1920*1036
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dcorr123 7 / 10

Eventually emerges as a good movie

The central story is excellent. Coral Browne, Amelia Shankley and, of course, Ian Holm are all excellent. Too much time is spent is spent on Alice's assistant, Lucy and reporter Jack Dolan. In my opinion, they're uninteresting and irrelevant. Although many people apparently like the Jim Henson creations for this movie, I find them inferior copies of the Tenniel illustrations and even more poorly "operated". There has been much discussion about the question of Dodgson's feelings for Alice. One thing has been left out of these discussions or perhaps reviewers are not aware of. Even if Dodgson's feelings were sexual, that would not have been regarded as especially inappropriate in Victorian England. The Victorians might have had what we would consider repressed attitudes towards sex, but that did not extend to age differences. The age of legal consent was 12 and men often married girls much younger than themselves. The only real impropriety from the Victorian viewpoint was that Dodgson wasn't considered the social equal of the Liddell family.
Reviewed by mjneu59 8 / 10

an aging Alice revisits Wonderland

The wonderland of memory is revisited by 80-year-old Alice Hargreaves, who as a child was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's 'Alice In Wonderland'. Spoiled by a lifetime of coddling, the aging Alice arrives with her young ward in New York City to honor, reluctantly, Reverend Charles Dodgeson (aka Carroll), whom she recalls with unflattering cruelty as little more than a pathetic, lovestruck man with an embarrassing stutter. But soon the infirmities of age and the attention lavished on her in the New World begin to invoke the ghosts of her Victorian childhood, bringing to life the stories she once inspired and softening her rigid disposition. Some thematic strands are left dangling at the film's conclusion, but otherwise it's a charming fantasy about the redemptive powers of nostalgia, co-starring the delightfully malevolent Wonderland denizens of Muppet-man Jim Henson.
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