Alice in Wonderland (1999 film)
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| Based on |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll |
| Screenplay by | Peter Barnes |
| Directed by | Nick Willing |
| Starring |
Tina Majorino Miranda Richardson Martin Short Whoopi Goldberg Simon Russell Beale Robbie Coltrane Ken Dodd Heathcote Williams Gene Wilder George Wendt Christopher Lloyd Peter Ustinov Ben Kingsley Elizabeth Spriggs Pete Postlethwaite |
| Theme music composer | Richard Hartley |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Dyson Lovell |
| Cinematography | Stefan Lange Giles Nuttgens |
| Editor(s) | Alex Mackie |
| Running time | 129 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hallmark Entertainment |
| Budget | $21 million |
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| Original network | NBC |
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Alice in Wonderland is a 1999 made-for-television film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It was first broadcast on NBC and then shown on British television on Channel 4.
Tina Majorino played the lead role of Alice, and a number of well-known performers portrayed the eccentric characters whom Alice meets during the course of the story, including Ben Kingsley, Ken Dodd, Martin Short, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Ustinov, Christopher Lloyd, Gene Wilder, Robbie Coltrane and Miranda Richardson.
The film won four Emmy Awards in the categories of costume design, makeup, music composition, and visual effects.
The film was re-released as a special edition DVD on March 2, 2010, featuring an additional five minutes of footage.
The film follows the storyline of the book closely, save for adding some scenes from Through the Looking-Glass. It also changes the opening real world scene from Alice and her sister sitting at a riverbank to Alice in her bedroom, reluctantly practicing the song "Cherry Ripe", which she is expected to perform at a garden party. (The party guests are played by the same actors as the Wonderland characters, and are shown as resembling them in appearance and personality, in a similar manner to the MGM version of The Wizard of Oz. The toys in Alice's room also reflect the residents of Wonderland). Thanks to stage fright, and constant nagging from her confident governess (Dilys Laye), Alice runs out of the house and hides herself in the woods nearby until the party has ended. However, an apple floats down from the tree and seems to hover in Alice's face. She is suddenly distracted by a human-sized White Rabbit (voiced by Richard Coombs) rushing by. Curious, Alice follows the White Rabbit, falling down his rabbit hole and ending up in Wonderland.
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