Alice in Wonderland is a
television film first broadcast in 1999 on
NBC and then shown on British television on
Channel 4. It is based upon
Lewis Carroll's books
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
Through the Looking-Glass.
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,
Martin Short,
Whoopi Goldberg,
Peter Ustinov,
Christopher Lloyd,
Gene Wilder, 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.
Plot
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
music teacher, Alice runs out of the house and hides herself in the...
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