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Studio:Revolver

Director:Terry Gilliam

Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Jeff Bridges, Jodelle Ferland, Sateen Lips, Glitter Gal

Running Time:118 minutes

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Shot in bright, saturated color and set in a landscape of tall grass and wide-open space, "Tideland" unfolds on the borderline between fantasy and reality, which is familiar territory for its director, Terry Gilliam. In movies like "The Fisher King," "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "The Brothers Grimm" he has set out for that frontier, but this time he has stumbled into a different no-man's land, the one between the merely bad and the completely indefensible. To make a long movie short: Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) is the young child of two heroin addicts. Mom checks out early, and Dad (Jeff Bridges) does not stay around much longer ? though his rotting (and later embalmed) body lingers. Jeliza-Rose takes refuge in make-believe from the tawdriness of her existence. The worst that can be said of the first two-thirds of "Tideland" is that it is tiresome. Toward the end it becomes creepy, and not in a good way SCREENED/AWARDED AT: San Sebastian International Film Festival, ...Tideland ( Rose in Tideland ) ( Tide land )

Amazon.co.uk Review

Whimsical, occasionally alarming and consistently odd, Tideland isn’t a film for everyone. But director Terry Gilliam would be the first to admit that; in his introduction on the DVD, he says that while some people will love the film, others will hate it, and still others just won’t know what to make of it.

It’s not difficult to see why. Tideland is about a little girl whose imagination becomes her refuge when first her mother dies of a drug overdose, then her deadbeat father follows suit, leaving her alone in a house surrounded by endless fields and lurking lunatics.

Tideland has been compared with Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth; but where the latter film had a brutal wartime backdrop, Tideland is set in the sunny but isolated world of the American deep South, and the nightmare creatures of the Labyrinth are exchanged for battered dolls’ heads. Left to his own devices, Gilliam does tend to make very strange films, and this is no exception. Tideland’s real strength is in its lead actress: for an eleven-year-old to carry a film that tackles death, drugs and child abuse is a tall order, but Jodelle Ferland manages it spectacularly. --Sarah Dobbs

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