Dreamchild (1985)

Dreamchild (1985)



Writer: Dennis Potter

Director: Gavin Millar

Music: Stanley Myers

Lucy: Nicola Cowper

Jack Dolan: Peter Gallagher

Little Alice: Amelia Shankley

Alice Hargreaves: Coral Browne

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: Ian Holm

Makeup and creature effects: Jim Henson's Creature Shop



The story is told from the point of view of the elderly Alice Hargreaves (née Liddell) as in 1932 she travels to the United States from England to receive an honorary degree from Columbia University celebrating the centenary of Lewis Carroll's birth.



The film evolves from the factual to the hallucinatory as Alice revisits her memories of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), in Victorian-era Oxford to her immediate present in the unruly wonderland of Depression-era New York.



Accompanied by a shy young orphan named Lucy, old Alice must navigate her way through the modern world of tabloid journalism and commercial exploitation and come to peace with her conflicted childhood with the whimsical and repressed Oxford don whose deep affection for her produced one of the most beloved classics of children's literature.



N.B. Though technically this is a DVD rip, the video/audio quality doesn't exceed that of a VHS rip. This is because the only available DVD edition of this movie (published by "EastWest DVD", you can find these in superstore bargain bins) is itself a transfer from VHS. Lets hope there comes a day we see a proper DVD release of this film!



Until then - enjoy, and please keep seeding until you have uploaded at least as much as you have downloaded, so the torrent stays alive and healthy for as long as possible!