Tideland (DVD)

This is family fantasy film which is directed by Terry Gilliam. It starts off with a little girl who has been brought up around her junkie parents. At the start the film mother dies because she has tryed to come clean from heroine, the daughter walks into the room to find her father in her mothers room saying the mother has died. The father then runs away with the little girl who is called Jeliza-Rose and is played by Jodelle Ferland, he takes her to his mothers house and makes jeliza rose ( Jodelle Ferland ) set up his herione in a needle and then overdoses himself leaving jeliza rose to live in her own little fantasy world. Jeliza rose dose not realize ...  Read the complete review

After her mum dies of a drugs overdose, young Jeliza-Rose and her father Noah go to stay in his deceased mother's farmhouse in Texas. Jeliza -Rose like she has always done fixes her father up so he can go on one of his 'Vacations', but this time Noah doesn't return to the land of the living. Not realizing that her father is dead because she's used to seeing him unconscious, Jelzia-Rose descends deeper and deeper into a fantasy world. Her only 'friends' are Barbie doll heads, which sit on her fingers, and together they explore new adventures. It's not long however before she meets Dickens who's mentally challenged, and his sister Dell, the crazy bee lady. For Jeliza-Rose, ...  Read the complete review

Tideland by the the director of Brazil Terry Gilliam, possesses rather darker overtones than his previous work. It effectively combines the sunny open spaces of the deep American South with the warped vision of a gothic horror movie. Gilliam describes it appropriately as a cross between Alice in wonderland and Psycho. Tideland is co-scripted by Gilliam and Tony Grisoni and is an adaptation of American writer Mitch Cullin's cult novel that was published in 2000. It portrays the gothic-like dreamworld of Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland), a neglected 11-year old little girl who is forced to care for her junkie parents. Her rocker father (Jeff Bridges at his best) ...  Read the complete review

Terry Gilliam's 'Tideland' was released in 2006. The film tells the story of Jeliza-Rose (played by Jodelle Ferland) who, after the death of her parents, spends most of her time involved in a fantasy world which she has created. I suppose it's a bit like 'Pan's Labyrinth' in concept - but this film is nowhere near on the same level. In fact, this is probably one of the worst films I have seen for a long time. On the particular DVD version of the movie which I saw, the viewer is forced to watch an introduction from Terry Gilliam prior to the opening scenes. Gilliam basically makes excuses for the film before it's even begun. I was like, ...  Read the complete review