
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawA diary of pain and a chronicle of the armour of mythology an imaginative mind expels to salve it away. |
| Bryant Frazer's Deep FocusBryant FrazerIt's no masterpiece, but it is a haunting, serious picture. |
| Empire Magazine AustralasiaLuke GoodsellSurreal, inspired cinema from Gilliam that refuses to sugar-coat the dark imagination of children. |
| eFilmCritic.comPeter SobczynskiPart Lewis Carroll, part Alfred Hitchcock, part Andrew Wyeth, part Terrence Malick and all Terry Gilliam, it is a unique and personal vision that, like it or not, will stick in your mind for a long time after you see it. |
| Ebert & RoeperRichard RoeperI came very close to walking out of the screening room. And I never do that. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonPerhaps once we leave these squeamish times, Tideland will emerge like one of Welles' later films as a misunderstood classic. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe movie dies early on, but it keeps hanging around, looking a little more rotten with each new scene. |
| StarburstRyan PollardIt is true that Gilliam makes his movies through fire and brimstone just by examining his extraordinary filmography, and there is no denying that Tideland is a film that was borne out of that. |
| Old School ReviewsJohn A. Nesbitfilm stands as a metaphor testifying for the basic resiliency of the human spirit |
| Urban CinefileUrban Cinefile CriticsTerry Gilliam has again stretched his craft to fashion a work of tragedy-tinged fantasy that uses the full range of dark movie making tools to great effect. |