Amelia shankley british actress emma
Amelia shankley british actress emma
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Dreamchild
British Drama, 1985, 94 minutes
Starring Amelia Shankley as Alice
Ian Holm as Lewis Carroll
Special Effects by Jim Henson
The film Dreamchild is an ambitious surreal drama, adapted from a play of the same name.
On a lake near Oxford University in Victorian England, a random boat-ride forges a surprising camaraderie between a witty storyteller and a spirited young girl. The storyteller is an Oxford mathematician, Charles Dodgson; the young girl is Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean at the same university.
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Their serendipitous encounter will inspire the classic novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a fantasy yarn which continues to enchant children worldwide. Dodgson published his famous work under the familiar pseudonym, Lewis Carroll.
The enthusiastic reception of the book (translated into 174 languages) would propel Alice Liddell into celebrity status beyond her native England.
The plot of Dreamchild unfolds through a series of flashbacks fro