Tideland
Short description
Ten-year-old Jeliza-Rose has grown up with parents whose lives revolve around drugs. When her mother dies of an overdose, her father Noah, a rock musician whose career is long behind him, takes her away from Los Angeles to the run-down Texas farmhouse where he spent his childhood. There he too dies, and the girl is left alone in a remote landscape of wheat fields with only the severed heads of her dolls for company. She slips into an elaborate fantasy world, and her isolation is interrupted by two odd neighbours, the reclusive Dell and her brother Dickens, a young man with the mind of a boy who spends his days inside a wrecked bus.
Terry Gilliam directed and wrote the screenplay with Tony Grisoni, working from Mitch Cullin's novel. The film is the tenth of the fourteen features Gilliam has directed, arriving between Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Brothers Grimm. Jodelle Ferland carries the film as Jeliza-Rose and supplies the voices of her doll companions; Jeff Bridges plays Noah, Janet McTeer plays Dell, Brendan Fletcher plays Dickens, and Jennifer Tilly and Dylan Taylor appear in supporting roles. It was produced by Jeremy Thomas and Gabriella Martinelli on a budget of about 12 million dollars.
On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.3 out of 10 from roughly 36,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.5 from around 650 votes. A critics' rating of 4.7 out of 10 from 77 reviews places it well below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming of "Tideland" began on September 27, 2004, in Saskatchewan (Canada) and continued until December 1, during a creative break Terry Gilliam took while working on "The Brothers Grimm".
- Brendan Fletcher was cast in the role of Dickens before Terry Gilliam had even met him. Gilliam made the decision after viewing a demo tape sent to him by Fletcher.
- Jeliza-Rose reads excerpts from Lewis Carroll’s 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' to her father.
- Reminiscences of Alice run throughout the film: the bus ride, falling down the rabbit hole, the rabbit, Dell – the Duchess (but in the picnic scene in the book, she behaves like the White Queen from Through the Looking-Glass), and so on.
- Mitch Kalin, the author of the novel 'Tideland,' can be seen in the film as one of the bus passengers.
- For the American theatrical release, Gilliam recorded a short video message to the audience, which is played before every screening of the film. It contains the following words: “Hello, my name is Terry Gilliam. Many of you are not going to like this film. Many of you luckily are going to love it. And then the great majority of you are not going to know what you think of it. And I basically say, put away all the things you know, all the things you've learned, all your prejudices and fears, the preconceptions that an adult has, and try to be an innocent, as difficult as that is.”
- The film is based on Mitch Cullin's novel "Tideland" (2000).
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
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