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Released
1985 · FILM

Dreamchild

“He loved the child we will never forget...”

Directed by
Gavin Millar
Written by
Dennis Potter
Runtime
94 min
BiographyComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

80-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honour of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice's close friendship with the writer was the creative catalyst for Carroll's most beloved work. However, as Alice reflects on her experiences with the author, she slowly realises the complexity of their bond has had lasting, deeply felt ramifications.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Angus NewtonShot by Billy WilliamsScored by Stanley MyersDesigned by Roger Hall

Box Office

1985 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.2M

Budget$4.5M
Worldwide gross$1.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 1 theaters

Also known as

  • Das wahre Leben der Alice im Wonderlandde
  • Das wahre Leben der Alice im Wunderlandde

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