Alice in Wonderland
Short description
Alice in Wonderland is a family fantasy film from 1999, based on Lewis Carroll's stories. The young Alice slips away from a gathering at her parents' home, where she is expected to perform, and follows a large white rabbit down its burrow. She lands in Wonderland, a strange realm where she can grow to enormous size or shrink to a few inches, and where she encounters the Cheshire Cat, a rude caterpillar, the White Knight and the short-tempered Queen of Hearts as she searches for a way back home.
Nick Willing directed the film, which was his first feature and was followed chronologically by Doctor Sleep in 2002. Dyson Lovell produced it for Babelsberg International Film Produktion, Hallmark Entertainment and NBC Studios, with a budget of 21 million US dollars. Tina Majorino plays Alice, and the cast of 48 credited performers includes Robbie Coltrane as Tweedledum, Ben Kingsley as Major Caterpillar, Miranda Richardson as Queen of Hearts, Martin Short as Mad Hatter and Christopher Lloyd as White Knight. Running 133 minutes, it was made for television rather than cinemas.
Audience response has been moderate. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.3 out of 10 from around 9,500 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.2 out of 10 from roughly 400 votes. The two scores are close, suggesting a similar reception among viewers across both platforms.
What's left behind the scenes
- Many scenes in the film directly replicate illustrations by Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), the first illustrator of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1862-1865). (Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898).
- The scene where Alice walks down the corridor and grows larger and larger was filmed in a specially constructed corridor that decreased in size.
- Martin Short's head was digitally enlarged threefold to more closely resemble the March Hare from John Tenniel's original illustrations.
- The image of the Cheshire Cat was created using a combination of puppets (for the body) and computer graphics (Whoopi Goldberg's face was scanned and overlaid onto the image).
- The film is based on Lewis Carroll's fairy tale "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865).
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