Tideland (film)
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| Directed by | Terry Gilliam |
| Produced by |
Gabriella Martinelli Jeremy Thomas |
| Screenplay by |
Tony Grisoni Terry Gilliam |
| Based on |
Tideland by Mitch Cullin |
| Starring |
Jodelle Ferland Brendan Fletcher Janet McTeer with Jennifer Tilly and Jeff Bridges |
| Music by |
Jeff Danna Mychael Danna |
| Cinematography | Nicola Pecorini |
| Edited by | Lesley Walker |
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| Distributed by | Revolver Entertainment (UK) Capri Films (CAN) THINKFilm (US) |
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120 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | CAD$19 million (USD$12 million) |
| Box office | $566,611 |
Tideland is a 2005 British-Canadian science fiction fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, an adaptation of Mitch Cullin's novel of the same name. The film was shot in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and surrounding area in the fall and winter of 2004. The world premiere was at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, where the film was met with mixed response from both viewers and critics. After little interest from U.S. distributors, THINKFilm picked the film up for a U.S. release date in October 2006.
The film's title appears in dialogue written by Gilliam and co-writer Tony Grisoni in which Noah (Jeff Bridges) says, "Daddy's gonna stroll down that far subterranean shore, all littered with the flotsam of hopes and dreams. Relics of ancient times. Lonely cenotaphs. Standing along that melancholy tideland." In Cullin's novel, however, there is no such dialogue from the character of Noah, and the only mention of the book's title comes at the end of Chapter 21, last paragraph, when the first-person voice of Jeliza-Rose says, "Before sleep, the last sound to fill my ears was the beating of my heart, and I knew I was slipping past the tideland, going beneath the ocean and sinking away from What Rocks."
Tideland centers on an abandoned child, Jeliza-Rose, and her solitary adventures during one summer in rural Texas while staying at a rundown farmhouse called What Rocks, and focuses on the increasingly dark, imaginative fantasy life the girl creates with the aid of dismembered Barbie doll heads that she often wears on her fingertips. With names such as Mystique, Sateen Lips, Baby Blonde and Glitter Gal, the doll heads not only engage in long conversations with Jeliza-Rose, reflecting different aspects of the girl's psyche, but also act as her companions while she explores the barren Texas landscape.
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