Directed by:
Nick WillingCinematography:
Jon JoffinComposer:
Ben MinkCast:
Caterina Scorsone, Tim Curry, Kathy Bates, Matt Frewer, Colm Meaney, Andrew Lee Potts, Charlotte Sullivan, Philip Winchester, Zak Santiago, Eugene Lipinski (more)Plots(1)
Abandoned by her father as a child, the independent twenty-one-year-old Alice is accustomed to men being unpredictable, but Jack Chase is something else. Just moments after surprising her with a rare family ring, he's suddenly kidnapped by two thugs and driven into darkness. It is then that Alice is confronted by a sharply dressed stranger who calls himself White Rabbit, and who promises to know more about Jack than she. Where Alice follows him is through the liquid glass of an ornate mirror. Where she lands is Wonderland, an outlandish underground city of twisted towers and parapets, staircases conceived in a Dali dream, and an otherworldly purple horizon. Soon, the word's out that Wonderland has its most prized captive. It seems Alice has the ring that controls the looking glass-the key to the power of the Queen of Hearts. It was mad folly for her son Jack to give it to a girl he barely knew. But Jack had his reasons. Discovering them is up to Alice. (official distributor synopsis)
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Nick Willing transformed the classic Alice into his own image for the second time, this time in a brilliantly original rendition. I really marvelled at Willing’s imagination, he created a bizarre new Wonderland, in which the Mad Hatter flees in a speedboat and the Queen's guards fly on motorised flamingos. The miniseries has its deaf spots at times, but in its execution it is another distinctive piece from a great British production. A slightly different Alice, full of interesting scenes and characters, accompanied by a nice score, in which Andrew Lee Potts as the Mad Hatter and Kathy Bates as the Red Queen appealed to me most.
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