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| Dreamchild | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Gavin Millar |
| Written by | Dennis Potter |
| Produced by | Rick McCallum Kenith Trodd |
| Starring | Coral Browne Ian Holm Peter Gallagher Nicola Cowper Amelia Shankley |
| Cinematography | Billy Williams |
| Edited by | Angus Newton |
| Music by | Stanley Myers |
Production company | |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £4 million[2] or $3.8 million[3] or £2.9 million[4] |
Dreamchild is a 1985 British drama film written by Dennis Potter, directed by Gavin Millar, and produced by Rick McCallum and Kenith Trodd.[5] 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.
- ^ a b "Box Office Mojo – Dreamchild". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ^ Alexander Walker, Icons in the Fire: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everyone in the British Film Industry 1984–2000, Orion Books, 2005 p35
- ^ Harmetz, Aljean (24 January 1986). "At the Movies". The New York Times.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
potterwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Potter and Verity Lambert are credited as executive producers in the opening titles