Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Alice in Wonderland (1999 film)

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, Ken Dodd, 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.
                                                               

Distributed by Hallmark Entertainment
Directed by Nick Willing
Produced by Dyson Lovell
Screenplay by Peter Barnes
Based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Starring Tina Majorino
Miranda Richardson
Martin Short
Whoopi Goldberg
Simon Russell Beale
Robbie Coltrane
Ken Dodd
Gene Wilder
George Wendt
Christopher Lloyd
Peter Ustinov
Ben Kingsley
Elizabeth Spriggs
Pete Postlethwaite
Music by Richard Hartley
Cinematography Stefan Lange
Giles Nuttgens
Editing by Alex Mackie
Budget $21 million
Country United Kingdom
United States
Germany
Language English
Release date
  • February 28, 1999
Running time 129 minutes

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