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Dreamchild
Sign in to saveDreamchild 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''.
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6.680-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honour of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice's close friendship with the writer was the creative catalyst for Carroll's most beloved work. However, as Alice reflects on her experiences with the author, she slowly realises the complexity of their bond has had lasting, deeply felt ramifications.
Cast
- Coral Browne as Alice Hargreaves
- Ian Holm as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
- Peter Gallagher as Jack Dolan
- Caris Corfman as Sally Mackeson
- Nicola Cowper as Lucy
- Jane Asher as Mrs. Liddell
Themes
- new york city
- 19th century
- 1930s
- lewis carroll
- elderly lady
- children's author
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 94
- FilmAffinity ID
- 117630
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- publication date
- 1985-01-01
- title
- Dreamchild
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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.