Tideland

IMDb link: 0410764
IMDb rating: 6.3 (35,932 votes)
Genres: Horror, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Jodelle Ferland, Jennifer Tilly, Brendan Fletcher, Janet McTeer and others

Release date: 11 Aug 2006
Release year: 2005
Runtime: 120 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, Canada
Keywords: imagination, finger puppet, reference to alice in wonderland, doll's head, abandoned house, decomposing body, taxidermy, child neglect, death by overdose, talking doll

Plot:

Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah dead in his chair, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads enter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens.

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