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Dennis Potter (writer)
Release Date:
4 October 1985 (USA) more
Plot:
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 6 wins & 4 nominations more
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(3 articles)
Streep Noms, #6 (1985)
(From FilmExperience. 26 June 2009, 10:15 AM, PDT)
The Curious Case of the White Queen
(From FilmExperience. 2 March 2009, 5:30 AM, PST)
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Amazing film with an amazing story more (30 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Coral Browne | ... | Alice Hargreaves |
 | Ian Holm | ... | Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) |
 | Peter Gallagher | ... | Jack Dolan |
| Nicola Cowper | ... | Lucy |
| Jane Asher | ... | Mrs. Liddell |
| Amelia Shankley | ... | Little Alice |
| Imogen Boorman | ... | Lorina |
| Emma King | ... | Edith |
| Rupert Wainwright | ... | Hargreaves |
 | Roger Ashton-Griffiths | ... | Mr. Duckworth |
| James Wilby | ... | Baker |
| Shane Rimmer | ... | Mr. Marl |
| Peter Whitman | ... | Radio Producer |
| Ken Campbell | ... | Sound Effects Guy / March Hare (voice) |
 | William Hootkins | ... | 1st Radio Actor |
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94 min
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Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Sweden:Btl | UK:PG | USA:PG (certificate #27722)
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Coral Browne was only cast after the first choice dropped out. more
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Anachronisms: During the tea dance Jack and Lucy waltz to "I Only Have Eyes For You." The scene is set in 1932, but the song was not written until 1934. more
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Alice Hargreaves: [a journalist has just offered her some flowers] Are you one of those - oh, what are they called - Homosexuals? more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Coral Browne: Caviar for the General (1989) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Will You Won't You Join the Dance? more
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I absolutely fell in love with this film when I saw it in Denmark in 1988. I can add nothing to the praise already given on this board, but the story behind the film is equally amazing. Apparently, the producers, Thorn-EMI, shelved this gem due to a palace revolution in the company. It was tied up in a package with some films nobody would buy, to the mortification of director Gavin Millar, writer Dennis Potter, and star Coral Browne. It ran for a very short time in Shaftesbury Av., London, where Danish Carsten Brandt from Posthusteatret in Copenhagen saw it, secured a copy - upon which the film ran for four straight years, every evening in his theatre.
I saw it some ten times during that run, and I suppose I shall never tire of it.
It's alarming how easy it is to keep a good film down for years if it's not promoted properly. Luckily, it has found its way to both movie theatres and TV since.