DreamChild
By: Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment Ltd. presents a PFH film ; a film written by Dennis Potter ; executive producers, Dennis Potter & Verity Lambert ; produced by Rick McCallum & Kenith Trodd ; directed by Gavin Millar
Contributors: Browne, Coral, 1913-1991, actor; Gallagher, Peter, 1955- actor; Holm, Ian, 1931- actor; Asher, Jane, actor; Cowper, Nicola, 1967- actor; Corfman, Caris, 1955-2007, actor; Shankley, Amelia, actor; Mackay, Fulton, 1922-1987, voice actor; Bennett, Alan, 1934- voice actor; Walters, Julie, 1950- voice actor; Campbell, Ken, 1941-2008, voice actor; Haygarth, Tony, 1945- voice actor; Middlemass, Frank, voice actor; Robinson, Jane (Costume designer), costume designer; Newton, Angus, film editor; Hall, Roger (Production designer), production designer; Williams, Billy, director of photography; Myers, Stanley, composer (expression); Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898; Jim Henson's Creature Shop; Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment; Pennies from Heaven, Ltd; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1992- )
Series: Metro Goldwyn Mayer limited edition collection; Metro Goldwyn Mayer limited edition collection
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Format: [motion picture] /
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: Drama; Friendship; Reminiscing in old age
Description: A fantasy based on the true life visit of 80 year-old Alice Liddell Hargreaves, the inspiration for "Alice in Wonderland," to New York to celebrate the centennial of Lewis Carroll's birth. As Alice observes the developing romance between her traveling companion, Lucy, and a New York reporter, she reflects on her friendship with Lewis Carroll and finds herself haunted by the characters he created that amused her when she was a child.
Notes: "This disc is expected to play back in DVD video 'play only' devices, and may not play in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives."--Container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1985.

"Alice in Wonderland characters designed and performed by Jim Henson's Creature Shop."

Costume designer, Jane Robinson ; editor, Angus Newton ; production designer, Roger Hall ; director of photography, Billy Williams ; music by Stanley Myers.

Coral Browne, Peter Gallagher, Ian Holm, Jane Asher, Nicola Cowper, Caris Corfman, Amelia Shankley ; creature voice overs, Fulton Mackay, Alan Bennett, Julie Walters, Ken Campbell, Tony Haygarth, Frank Middlemass.

Rated PG.

DVD-R, region 1, NTSC, Dolby digital.