Dreamchild
Dreamchild is a 1985 British drama film written by Dennis Potter, directed by Gavin Millar and produced by Rick McCallum and Kenith Trodd. It stars Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper and Amelia Shankley and is a fictionalised account of Alice Liddell, the child who inspired Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland.
The film begins on the ship bearing Alice Coral Browne and Lucy from England to New York City. As she and Lucy Nicola Cowper disembark, they are set upon by several journalists, all trying to get a story or quote from her. Clearly bewildered by all the excitement, she is befriended by an exreporter, Jack Dolan Peter Gallagher, who helps her and Lucy through the legions of the press. Dolan quickly becomes her agent and finds endorsement opportunities for her. Throughout it all, a romance develops between Jack and Lucy.But all is not well with Alice. Being so advanced in age, she needs Lucy, of whom she can be very demanding, to be her constant companion. When left alone in their hotel room, she begins to hallucinate and sees Mr. Dodgson Ian Holm in their room, and then, later, the Mad Hatter voiced by Tony Haygarth and March Hare voiced by Ken Campbell. Joining them for their insane tea party, they berate her for being so old and forgetful. She remembers also the lazy boating party ofJuly 1862, when the young Reverend Charles Dodgson, Lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, where her father was the Dean, had attempted to entertain her and her sisters by spinning the nonsense tale that grew to be Alices Adventures in Wonderland. ........
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