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Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19 x 14 x 1 cm; 50 Grams
Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD-Video
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00P10M3I6
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Art Booklover

An Interesting Version of Alice

Reviewed in Canada on July 17, 2022

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The recent death of director Gavin Millar should return this film to public re-consideration.
See The Guardian of 28 April 2022 for an assessment of the film. The characters we all know appear as recreations of Tenniel by way of Jim Henson's Creature Workshop. Moody, darkly humorous, well acted, enjoyable. Only available on DVD in this format.

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Patricia A. Parker

I have always loved Alice In Wonderland this looks at the real Alice ...

Reviewed in Canada on December 3, 2016

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I have always loved Alice In Wonderland this looks at the real Alice as a child and as an elderly lady. Jim Henson's studio did the characters that Alice encounters. One of my favorite films.

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Pamela Scarangello

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Reviewed in Canada on December 18, 2003

"Dreamchild" is a pleasant drama based on a 1967 BBC television play by Johnathan Miller. While being entirely fictional, the film drew much inspiration from the historical figures involved in developing the "Alice in Wonderland" book. At the same time, this movie features playful yet disturbing characters created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, which at the time had finished working on "The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth."
The year is 1932. The dignified Mrs. Alice Hargreaves (Coral Browne) has arrived to New York City to receive an honorary degree from Columbia University. The institution is planning to celebrate the 100th birthday of Charles Dodgeson (Ian Holm), AKA Lewis Carroll. Upon hearing the news about her arrival, New York's hungry reporters and photographers surround the old woman like vultures, treating her like celebrity. While they are anxious to know the relationship she once had with Lewis Carroll, she doesn't understand why so much fuss is placed into her association with a children's novel. In fact, after 70 years of strict, Victorian etiquette, Mrs. Hargreaves has almost forgotton about the simple joys of childhood nonsense. In the first half of the film, she is proud in her upper-class pomposity, reprimanding any stranger who calls her by her first name. Occasionally, there is humor in the clash between British and American behaviors. Later on, Jack Dolan (Peter Gallagher), a handsome and ambitious ex-reporter from the Harold Tribune, tries to convince Mrs. Hargreaves to capitalize on her identity; to rely on her childhood memories as a method of endorsing a feature film and radio ads. For further persuasion, Jack even uses his charms to woo Lucy (Nicola Cowper), Mrs. Hargreaves fragile and obedient daughter. Gradually, behind closed doors, the old woman becomes more vulnerable as she begins recalling the buried memories of her past. Throughout the film, viewers will see flashbacks of Alice's childhood; as a spirited, 10-year-old girl (Amelia Shankley), she has a blossoming love for her mathematics teacher Charles Dodgeson, who once told the adventures of Wonderland to her and her older sisters. Mr. Dodgeson, meanwhile, is a shy, private individual who stutters in the company of other people. He also feared that the little girl he knew as Alice would soon forget about the gift he gave her. It's clear that he's much more comfortable in the warmth of his own imaginative world than in the coldness of reality.
As Mrs. Hargreaves struggles to recall what Mr. Dodgeson said to her, several hallucinating scenes show her walking INTO the fantastic world of Wonderland. While her image flips back and forth between that of a child and an elder, she is tormented by the grotesque characters she encounters. The Griffin, for example, appears as a fierce predator, bearing the head of a hairy rooster and the large wings of a hawk. The purple Caterpiller has an unpleasant, almost pulpy body while he sternly stares at Alice with his yellow eyes. The March Hare looks like a diseased animal with his crooked buck teeth and gray fur. The Mad Hatter is perhap the most abusive character of all; when Mrs. Hargreaves forgets what day of the month it is, he snarls, "You stupid, ugly old hag. You should be DEAD!"
The movie, overall, is quite a treat to watch. Not only does it picture the stylish look of the early 1930's, but it also emits a mystery caught between both the fantastic and the real worlds. Fans of "Alice in Wonderland" will enjoy it because it captures the lovely summer days of the 19th century; it's a time when ladies were dressed in lace and children played croquet on the grassy lawns.

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Molly

not for young children...

Reviewed in Canada on June 25, 2002

Alice in Wonderland is a stroy which seems vastly different when read as a child and then reread as an adult. In this, a truly amazing movie which examines the lives of the real Alice in Wonderland and the real Lewis Carroll, the story told from Mrs. Hargreves (Alice's) point of view. She is now a woman in her eighties who has come to America for a ceremony in honor of the late Reverand better known as Lewis Carroll.
Travelling with Mrs. Hargreves is a young lady, who falls in love with an out-of-work reporter who is determined to get the "real story" out of Mrs. Hargreves. The love story is very charming.
Jim Hensons puppetry is also in the film, but this is not a movie for young children. The puppets are fierce and scary (indeed, very well done) The other reason that this is not an appropriate movie for young children is because it examines the awkward attraction and the Reverand's inappropriate love for young Alice. This is handled very well by the filmakers, keeping the movie in good taste. It is highly recommended for adult fans of Henson, and people who love Alice in Wonderland.

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Nancy B. LaMotta

It Ain't the Meat, it's the (E)motion

Reviewed in Canada on August 30, 2000

"Dreamchild" hypothesizes the relationship of _Alice in Wonderland"'s author Lewis Carroll (Rev. Dodson)and Alice Liddell, the little girl to and for whom he told the tale. It does this through flashbacks in the psyche of the now 80-year old Alice, en route to America to be honored in a centenary of Dodson's birth.
This movie's premise is that Alice has just plain forgotten, or deliberately put the 70-year old relationship with Dodson out of her mind, repressed it, because of the slightly sinister, decidedly unnatural spin her suspicious mother placed on it all those years ago. In the end, she realizes that "I was too young to recognize the gift" at the time it was offerred--namely, that Dodson simply loved her--and that she loved him.
I found the movie spellbinding, the hypothesis believable, and Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Jane Asher, and Amelia Shankley mesmerising; but most of all, it's the dreamy, brooding soundtrack that haunts...! I've seen this movie many times; from opening credits to final logo it reduces me to tears, and even for days afterward. Just thinking of a few bars of it has me running for tissues.

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S Newman

dark, edgy, a favorite of mine

Reviewed in Canada on May 31, 2000

I recall when this film first came out (1985)and I marveled at it's interpretation of Lewis Carroll's muse, the dreamchild Alice Liddell. The actors chosen were brilliant and the marriage between Henson's creatures and the film's actors a risk worth taking. I miss the 1933 film Looking Glass Movie and wish there were more magical escapades such as this. This movie answers no questions and revives the imagination. I loved it. Too bad they had to tether it all together with the trite 1930's characters. They really weren't given the dialog needed to fully realize their parts I fear. Pity. However, the movie survived even those lulls brilliantly.

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D. MacGowan

my favorite film

Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 1999

This film, although with a somewhat flawed "love story" in it, is my favorite film. It works on so many levels: the sadness of growing old; the story of Alice; the brevity of childhood; and, perhaps most poignantly, the ability to look back over the years, through the confusion of one's life, to see one brief but important relationship for how beautiful it truly was.

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字幕ありません、残念

Reviewed in Japan on April 27, 2017

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内容は周知なので最高です
知り合いへのプレゼント用とジャケ買いで自分のコレクション用に2枚購入しましたが字幕がありません
商品説明に明記して欲しかったです

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Emmanuelle P.

Superbe !

Reviewed in France on July 13, 2016

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Un des plus beaux films réalisés sur Lewis Carroll et Alice Liddel. Et les habitants du Pays des Merveilles retrouvent enfin leur part sombre et inquiétante. Chef-d’œuvre.
Dommage pour les non anglophones qu'il n'existe pas de version sous-titrée.

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Peter Ripota

Das wahre Leben der Alice im Wunderland

Reviewed in Germany on June 30, 2016

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1932, zu Lewis Carrolls 100. Geburtstag, wurde das Originalmanuskript von "Alice's Abenteuern unter der Erde" von der amerikanischen Columbia University ausgestellt. Das Manuskript hatte seine Besitzerin, die echte Alice, aus Geldnöten zuvor verkauft. Zu dem Festakt wurde die 80-jährige Alice Liddell Hargreaves, wie sie nun hieß, eingeladen, und da sie sich ihrer Bedeutung als Vorbild für das erfolgreichste Kinderbuch aller Zeiten bewusst war, nahm sie die Einladung an. In Begleitung ihres einzigen überlebenden Sohnes Caryl (die anderen beiden waren im Ersten Weltkrieg gefallen) ertrug sie, würdevoll und von Kopf bis in die Zehenspitzen eine vornehme englische Lady, die Strapazen der Besichtigungen, Interviews. Reden und Empfänge.
Hier knüpft der Film an. Die weitgehend realistische Schilderung der Reise wird aufgelockert durch Erinnerungen an die Zeit mit ihrem Mentor, vermischt mit Szenen aus dem Buch. All das ergibt eine eher bedrückende, teils unheimliche Szenerie, die durchaus zum Charakter des Buchs passt. Denn die beiden Alice-Bücher sind weit mehr als harmlose Kinder-Unterhaltung. Aber zurück zum Film.
Die australische Theater-Schauspielerin Coral Browne verkörpert die viktorianische, steife, zu ihren Untergebenen harte und verständnislose Alice in wunderbarer Weise, wofür sie auch einen "Saturn-Award" erhielt. Sie macht die Verwirrung der alten Dame, den Schrecken fragmentarischer Erinnerungen, die Vermischung von fröhlicher Kindheit und alptraumhafter Märchenwelt, in eindrucksvoller Weise plausibel. Nicht minder eindrucksvoll spielt Ian Holm den verdrucksten, irgendwie lauernden, sich durch sein Stottern blamierenden Oxford-Dozenten, der sich um seine kokette Alice bemüht, was sie aber nicht begreift oder nicht sehen will. Selbst die Figuren der Geschichte, hervorragend gestaltet von den amerikanischen Muppets-Studios, erlauben keine unbeschwerten Träume. Der Märzhase ist boshaft und hässlich, der verrückte Hutmacher hat blutunterlaufene Augen, der Greif blickt durchdringend und wirkt gefährlich. So entsteht ein Panorama des verknöcherten Alters, das durch Erinnerungen an eine angeblich unbeschwerte Kindheit in keiner Weise aufgelockert wird. Ein hervorragender und sehr realistischer Film!

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Juliana Gomide

Sem legendas

Reviewed in Italy on June 9, 2015

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Infelizmente esse ótimo filme britânico dos anos 80 ( feito em 1985) não é apresentado com nehuma legenda,
nem mesmo eminglês, o que é estranho, pois geralmente edições do Reino Unido mantêm legendas para
deficientes auditivos, pelo menos em inglês. O dvd é de muito boa qualidade, áudio e vídeo, o filme é ótimo,
muito bem dirigido e roteiro excelente, mas preciso das legendas, por isso dou somente três estrelas pela
qualidade do filme.

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James Koch

Haunting

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2010

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If I told you this is the true life story of Alice from Alice in Wonderland one might not be interested.However what I find amazing about this film is it explores what if you were ten years old, and a genius fell in love with you and you fell in love with this person knowing that the distances between you were so very great? The story is of course about Alice and Lewis Carroll-a touchy piece since any adult who shows a interest in kids these days is automatically labeled as "a sex offender" which is in my mind why Lewis Carroll in the last 20 years has gone from a well discussed literary figure to a character nobody wishes to discuss as it is assumed these any adult male who shows interest in children who are not his own must be some sort of evil and sick sexual predator!
I'm not sure what category of people I would reccomend this movie to -- the story is like nothing I've ever seen before. Half of the time it's a very dark and introspective piece, which refuses to outright *give* us the straight answers we are used to be handed during a 90 minute movie. Other times it's a funny and rather poignant tale about three unlikely friends -- two of whom happen to be in love with each other. This movie tackles a LOT for an hour and a half, and doesn't do everything it attempts well. But even when it fails, it's thrilling. The actors are also amazing. I can't give enough kudos to the performers who worked on this piece.
Alice Liddel, the original little girl that so inspired Lewis Carrol, is all grown up, widowed, and turned into a crochety old woman. She is embarking on her first trip to America to receive an honarary degree from Columbia in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Rev. Charles Dodgeson's (the real name of L.C.) birthday. She travels with Lucy, her sweet-as-cream companion who Alice has (apparently) rescued from life as an orphan. As soon as they set foot on dry land, it's clear this is not ordinary trip as the problem with all this Alice-mania is that the REAL Alice hardly remembers the man who penned her when the film opens. Her memories of her childhood in sunny, Victorian England (sequences which are done spectacularly, and are really beautiful and nostalgic) are mixed in with scenes of a child's vivid imagining of the scenes in the storybook. This is where Henson's genius comes into play. It probably helped that I never considered the Mad Hatter, March Hare, Red and White Queens, et. all very nice, but I thought the sinister characterization of those characters perfect for the wanderings of a confused old woman. Along with the audience, she struggles to understand the relationship between herself and the Reverend, so many years ago.

I really can't give justice to this movie with a written review. The visual aspects, as well as some of the counterpoints used (swtiching between old and young Alices in Wonderland scenes) really deserve to be SEEN, not talked about. Suffice to say that this is a very powerful movie, in its own subtle way. I've read a few reviews that criticized the movie's "softening" of historical facts. I honestly don't believe it sugar-coats all that much. It doesn't touch on Carrol's friendships with other little girls, and ignores the fact that he kept in touch with Alice Liddel long after her marriage for the sake of drama. But otherwise it gives a fair protrayal of events -- at least, one interpretation of them. Because that's another aspect of this movie. Dodgeson was a dreamer, and through his dreams transformed the ordinary into the extraordinary. But did that make it any less true?
This is both a beautiful and sometimes disturbing film. Ian Holm plays the Reverend Dodgson whom the world better knows as Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Holm expertly handles the razor's edge of Dodgson's love with the youngest of the three Liddle sisters.What is suggested here is Lewis Carroll and Alice were actually romantically involved and there was a certain level of sexual attraction between the two but Carroll so loved Alice he never stepped over the line to indicate he ever handled the love he had for her in a way that would be inappropriate even for Victorian standards-though one gets the feeling if the two had been just 5 or so more years closer in age they would have been soulmates and their love would have been sexually passionate....but time can be cruel and it was this fact that comes out over and over again in the film that time is a thief and like a thief it can steal memories and it can take all one has away. 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 as she realizes what she lost so long ago and the man who so loved her to let her go... The Wonderland characters are perfectly grotesque Muppet versions performed by Jim Hemson's Creature Shop that give the set a sort of NeverEnding Story look so common with the fantasy films from the 1980's.Like.Great viewing for the entire family.--P.S. This is The Alice in Wonderland you want to see-not the 2010 movie Disney is putting out with 30 year old looking Alice running around in scenry that screams out it is all CGI effects.The remake begs me to wonder what damage they will do to Clash of the Titans in the remake!

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