Wandering in long grass, she meets Major Caterpillar ( Ben Kingsley), who tells her not to be afraid when performing. The White Rabbit and his gardeners Pat ( Jason Byrne) and Bill ( Paddy Joyce) attempt to remove Alice but she shrinks to a tiny size. Alice finds a bottle of liquid which makes her grow and traps her in the house. Alice again encounters the White Rabbit, who directs her to his house. Mouse ( Ken Dodd) and his avian friends who attend his boring history lecture and participate in a Caucus Race. In an attempt to enter a small door and hide in a beautiful garden, Alice shrinks and grows into a giant, floods a room with tears and shrinks to the size of a mouse. She then sees the White Rabbit (voiced by Richard Coombs) and follows him down the rabbit hole, landing in Wonderland. As clowds fill the sky, an apple falls from the tree and hovers in her face. Nagged by her governess ( Dilys Laye) and facing stage fright, an audience of strangers and a song she dislikes, Alice runs out of the house and hides in the woods.
A rare behind-the-scenes documentary of the film was released to YouTube in 2019, the 20th anniversary of the films release.Īlice is unwillingly preparing a presentation of the song " Cherry Ripe" for a garden party. The film was re-released as a special edition DVD on March 2, 2010, no special features were included, however the film was restored to its original speed as prior releases suffered from PAL speed up.
The film won four Emmy Awards in the categories of costume design, makeup, music composition and visual effects. In common with most adaptations of the book, it includes scenes and characters from 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, Martin Short, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Ustinov, Christopher Lloyd, Gene Wilder, George Wendt, Robbie Coltrane and Miranda Richardson. It is currently the last production to adapt the original stories (as Tim Burton's 2010 film was written as a sequel) and was first broadcast on NBC and then shown on British television on Channel 4. Alice in Wonderland is a 1999 made-for-television film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
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