Tideland

Release date: 29-Jan-2007

Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Jodelle Ferland, Janet McTeer, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly, Jeff Bridges

Jeliza-Rose is a young child in a very unusual situation - both her parents are junkies. When her mother dies, she embarks on a strange journey with her father, Noah, a rock'n'roll musician well past his time.

The film drifts between reality and fantasy as Jeliza-Rose escapes the vast loneliness of her new home into the fantasy world that exists in her imagination. In this world fireflies have names, bog-men awaken at dusk, and squirrels talk. The heads of four dolls, long since separated from their bodies, keep her company: Mystique, Baby Blonde, Glitter Gal and Sateen Lips, until she meets Dickens, a mentally damaged young man with the mind of a ten-year old.

Dressed in a white suit and speedo, he spends his days hiding out in a junk heaped wig-wam turned submarine waiting to catch the monster shark that inhabits the railway tracks. Then there's his older sister Dell, a tall ghost-like figure dressed in black who hides behind a beekeeper's mesh hood.

As optimistic as it is surreal, as humorous as it is suspenseful - Tideland is a celebration of the power of a child's imagination.

Certificate: 15
Genres: Drama Film

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