Tideland (2005)

Director:

Terry Gilliam

Writers:

Tony Grisoni (screenplay) &
Terry Gilliam (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

30 March 2006 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | Thriller

Tagline:

The squirrels made it seem less lonely

Plot:

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.

Plot Keywords:

Girl | Doll's Head | Drug Addict | Doll | Fear

Awards:

1 win & 10 nominations

Cast

Jodelle Ferland	...	Jeliza-Rose / Voices of Sateen Lips, Glitter Gal, Mustique and Baby Blonde
Janet McTeer	...	Dell
Brendan Fletcher	...	Dickens
Jennifer Tilly	...	Queen Gunhilda
Jeff Bridges	...	Noah
Dylan Taylor	...	Patrick
Wendy Anderson	...	Woman / Squirrel's Voice
Sally Crooks	...	Dell's Mother
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alden Adair	...	Luke (uncredited)
Mitch Cullin	...	Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Harry Gilliam	...	Jerry (uncredited)
Kent Nolan	...	Boy (uncredited)

Directed by
Terry Gilliam

Writing credits
Tony Grisoni		(screenplay) &
Terry Gilliam		(screenplay)
Mitch Cullin		(novel)

Produced by
Rhonda Baker	....	line producer
Wladyslaw Bartoszewics	....	associate producer (as Wladyslaw Bartoszewicz)
Paul Brett	....	executive producer
Gabriella Martinelli	....	producer
Nick O'Hagan	....	associate producer
Jeremy Thomas	....	producer
Peter Watson	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Jeff Danna
Mychael Danna

Cinematography by
Nicola Pecorini

Film Editing by
Lesley Walker

Casting by
Deirdre Bowen

Production Design by
Jasna Stefanovic

Art Direction by
Anastasia Masaro

Set Decoration by
Sara McCudden

Costume Design by
Mario Davignon
Delphine White

Makeup Department
Patrick Baxter	....	foam technician
Réjean Forget	....	key hair stylist (as Rejean Forget)
Tracy George	....	assistant makeup artist
Tamara Harrod	....	assistant hair stylist
Christine Hart	....	makeup department head
Louise Mackintosh	....	key special makeup effects artist
Raymond Mackintosh	....	key special makeup effects studio technician
Leslie Ann Sebert	....	makeup artist: Ms. Tilly (as Leslie Sebert)
Stan Winston	....	face cast: Noah
Russell Cate	....	special makeup effects artist (uncredited)
Jennifer Forberg	....	makeup artist (uncredited)
Patrick Gorny	....	foam technician (uncredited)
Carolyn Harris	....	additional makeup artist (uncredited)
Christine Larocque	....	wig maker (uncredited)
Liese Mackintosh	....	makeup effects studio assistant (uncredited)
Rosalie Mackintosh	....	makeup effects studio assistant (uncredited)
Nina McArthur	....	additional makeup artist (uncredited)
David Scott	....	designer: bog man (uncredited)
David Scott	....	prosthetics technician (uncredited)

Production Management
Ian McDougall	....	production supervisor
Todd Pittson	....	production manager
Michael Saxton	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Trevor Cunningham	....	director trainee
Luke Fisher	....	third assistant director
Shayne Putzlocher	....	third assistant director
William Spahic	....	first assistant director
Jack Thomas	....	trainee assistant director
Pamela Wintringham	....	second assistant director (as Pamela D. Wintringham)
Holly Gilliam	....	trainee assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Ira Aikman	....	prop buyer
Calvin Bachiu	....	painter
Joel Bancescue	....	construction laborer
Patrick Baxter	....	foam technician
Jerry Beaudrow	....	carpenter
Mike Bergen	....	best boy greens
Clinton Biddle	....	painter
Gordon Brown	....	assistant head painter
Jackson Burke	....	carpenter
Russell Cate	....	sculptor
Barbara Chandler	....	scenic painter
Norm Daschle	....	on-set dresser (as Norman Daschle)
Vince Donato	....	construction coordinator
Rylan Faul	....	greensman
Jeff Fedorchuk	....	lead carpenter
Gerry Filby	....	on-set carpenter
Gerry Filby	....	scenic carpenter
Jeffrey Gamble	....	scenic painter
Kieran Gelfand	....	scenic painter
Tim Gingrich	....	carpenter
Nazgol Goshtasbpour	....	prop buyer daily
Alison Grothe	....	on-set dresser
Jeff Helgason	....	key scenic artist
Sean Hollis	....	assistant head painter
Morgan Hughes	....	scenic painter
Charmaine Husum	....	on-set painter
Murray Keith	....	carpenter
Mayumi Konishi-Valentine	....	set designer (as Mayumi Konishi)
Loyola Lewis	....	scenic painter
Kelly Liberet	....	construction laborer
Kelly MacDonald	....	construction laborer
Paul Macina	....	carpenter
Britton Main	....	painter
Sara McCudden	....	set buyer (as Sara Longfellow)
John McIntosh	....	head greensman
Daniel McKay	....	scenic carpenter
Will Moffatt	....	set dresser
Russell Moore	....	set designer
Tracy Myers	....	construction laborer
Shirley Nap	....	scenic painter (as Shirley Naf)
Bob Nett	....	construction buyer
Justin Onofriechuk	....	assistant property master
Keith Potter	....	lead set dresser
Roger Roscoe	....	prop buyer
Marty Rothermel	....	carpenter
Brent Russell	....	assistant set decorator
Danny Scavuzzo	....	construction foreman
David Schultz	....	carpenter
David Scott	....	puppet designer
Wade Selby	....	carpenter
David Selinger	....	paint foreman (as Dave Selinger)
Tara Sikorski	....	art department production assistant
Alan Tremaine	....	carpenter
Bev Ulmer	....	scenic painter (as Beverley Ulmer)
Crystal Waddell-Gardiner	....	construction buyer
Mike Waddell-Gardiner	....	set dresser (as Michael Waddell-Gardiner)
Johann Wessels	....	second assistant art director
Scotty Whittman	....	greensman (as Scott Whitman)
Colin Wiest	....	carpenter
Ken Wills	....	property master
Laura Wolfe	....	set decoration trainee
Taku Dazai	....	special mechanical props (uncredited)

Sound Department
Paul Ackerman	....	foley artist
Paul Ackerman	....	foley editor
Denis Bellingham	....	boom operator
James Bennett	....	adr recordist
Doug Cooper	....	sound re-recording mixer (as Douglas Cooper)
Robin Crumley	....	location sound recordist: 'Dreamland' documentary
Robert Farr	....	sound re-recording mixer
Simon John	....	trainee sound assistant
Kevin Konarzewski	....	adr mixer: Vancouver
David Lee	....	production sound mixer
Nick Lowe	....	adr editor
James Mather	....	supervising sound editor
Chris Navarro	....	adr recordist
Tim Owens	....	dialogue editor
Emil Quan	....	sound trainee
Sean Richards	....	foley engineer
Evan Rust	....	sound editor
Evan Rust	....	sound recordist
Joseph Stracey	....	sound effects editor (as Joseph Park Stracey)
Andy Thompson	....	adr recordist
Eric Thompson	....	adr mixer
Jeff Hamon	....	additional sound (uncredited)
Mark Paterson	....	sound re-recording mixer (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Dean Campbell	....	special effects trainee
Mike Friesen	....	special effects assistant
Carolyn Harris	....	special effects assistant
Walter Klassen	....	special effects
Neil Krause	....	special effects on-set key
Wade Maurer	....	special effects best boy
Jay McClennen	....	puppets
Leo Wieser	....	special effects supervisor: Bleeding Art Industries

Visual Effects by
Richard Bain	....	visual effects supervisor
Nick Bedford	....	digital effects coordinator: Peerless Camera Company
Martin Body	....	senior rotoscope artist: Peerless Camera Company
Jim Bowers	....	digital matte painter: Peerless Camera Company
Mark Bradley	....	production assistant: Peerless Camera Company
Nadine Buckley	....	systems administrator: Peerless Camera Company
Duncan Burbidge	....	digital effects coordinator: Peerless Camera Company
Otto Dent	....	junior digital compositor: Peerless Camera Company
John Paul Docherty	....	digital effects supervisor: Peerless Camera Company
Ditch Doy	....	CG supervisor: Peerless Camera Company
Rob Gordon	....	digital online editor
Ed Hall	....	production assistant: Peerless Camera Company
Steven Hall	....	visual effects director of photography
Ben Hicks	....	digital compositor: Peerless Camera Company
Jack Hughes	....	digital compositor
Lorraine Johnson	....	film scanning supervisor
Dennis Jones	....	digital compositor: Peerless Camera Company
Marc Jouveneau	....	digital compositor: Peerless Camera Company
Andrew Kingston	....	systems administrator: Peerless Camera Company
Diane Kingston	....	digital effects producer: Peerless Camera Company
Sarah MacKenzie	....	administrative support: Peerless Camera Company
Sarah Marchant	....	digital compositor: Peerless Camera Company
Ian McFadyen	....	digital effects artist
Mike McGuinness	....	digital animator: Peerless Camera Company
Thomas Müller	....	administrator: Peerless
John O'Lone	....	rotoscope artist: Peerless Camera Company
Tim Ollive	....	digital animator: Peerless Camera Company
John Palmer	....	digital film bureau manager: Laser record
Chris Panton	....	digital compositor: Peerless Camera Company
Janet Quen	....	digital compositor: Peerless Camera Company
Paul Round	....	senior digital compositor: Peerless Camera Company
Marianne Speight	....	digital effects coordinator: Peerless Camera Company
Mark Spevick	....	digital animator: Peerless Camera Company
Emeline Tedder	....	rotoscope artist: Peerless Camera Company
Charlotte Towe	....	administrative support: Peerless Camera Company
Marc Twinam-Cauchi	....	digital animator: Peerless Camera Company
John Whitlock	....	senior rotoscope artist: Peerless Camera Company (as John Whillock)

Stunts
Loyd Catlett	....	stunt performer
Terrance Leigh	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
John Adshead	....	key grip
Dustin Allen	....	lamp operator
Latif Cavanaugh	....	grip
Jeff Connors	....	dolly grip
Mark Dobrescu	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Mark Dobrescu	....	director of photography: second unit
François Duhamel	....	still photographer
Danny Duperrault	....	electric trainee (as Danny Duperreault)
Gary Exner	....	lamp operator
Leo Fafard	....	grip
Chad Ferguson	....	grip
Donovan Fraser	....	first assistant camera: "c" camera
Curt Galindo	....	grip trainee (as Curtis Galilndo-Orozco)
Tom Gardiner	....	second assistant camera: "c" camera
Christopher M. Gavin	....	lamp operator (as Christopher Gavin)
Jason Habicht	....	second assistant camera: "b" camera
Rob Hillstead	....	lamp operator
Brad Hodson	....	libra head operator
Todd Irving	....	first assistant camera: "b" camera, New York
Steve Itano	....	first assistant camera: second unit
Henry Kitchen	....	remote camera technician
Jay Kohne	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera
Peter La Rocque	....	gaffer (as Peter LaRocque)
Kevin Lheritier	....	best boy grip
Dean Morin	....	second assistant camera: "a" camera
Ed Moyer	....	generator operator
Chooch Paglaro	....	video playback operator
Nicola Pecorini	....	Steadicam operator
Dean Schatz	....	generator operator
Mark Christopher Sebert	....	video coordinator (as Mark Sebert)
Brock Stevens	....	best boy electric
Scott Storm	....	grip
David Trottier	....	camera trainee
Mark Wagner	....	lamp operator
Phil Wright	....	key rigging grip
Geoff Yates	....	grip

Casting Department
Vanessa Baker	....	adr voice casting
Brendan Donnison	....	adr voice casting
Deb Green	....	casting associate: Alberta
Trenna Keating	....	extras casting
Brenda McCormick	....	casting: Saskatchewan
Christopher Richards	....	casting associate
Millie Tom	....	casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Mureille Blouin	....	costume breakdown artist (as Murielle Blouin)
Roxanne Brown	....	seamstress
Sonja Clifton-Remple	....	assistant costumer
Robert Fenwick	....	on-set costume supervisor
Deanne Grass	....	costume breakdown artist
Denise Hansen	....	seamstress
Ann Henshaw	....	assistant costume designer
Kerri La Londe	....	costume breakdown artist
Charity Martin	....	costumer: extras
Robin Merrifield	....	seamstress (as Roberta Merrifield)
Nadia Williamson	....	costumer: extras

Editorial Department
Matt Adams	....	digital intermediate producer: ONE Post
Chris Andrews	....	negative cutter
Layla Blackman	....	post-production assistant (as Layla Evans)
Martin Corbett	....	assistant editor
Joann D'Arby	....	assistant digital intermediate producer: ONE Post (as Jo-Ann Darby)
Gavin Dargin	....	second assistant editor: Canada
Matt Gauci	....	avid technical support
Rob Gordon	....	digital on-line editor: ONE Post
Emily Greenwood	....	assistant digital on-line editor: ONE Post
Jack Hilkewich	....	third assistant editor
John Hinchliffe	....	digital intermediate technical manager: ONE Post
Jeremy Hume	....	assistant editor
Paul Jones	....	digital intermediate manager
Heather Malek	....	assistant editor: Canada
Nadia Naimi	....	assistant editor
Vincent Narduzzo	....	digital colorist: ONE Post (as Vince Narduzzo)
Mila Patriki	....	dailies colorist
Elisabeth Pinto	....	post-production assistant
Laurent Treherne	....	digital intermediate technical director: ONE Post
Verity Wislocki	....	post-production coordinator

Music Department
James Clark	....	orchestra leader: The Philharmonia Orchestra
Peter Clarke	....	music editor
Jeff Danna	....	score producer
Mychael Danna	....	score producer
Nicholas Dodd	....	conductor
Nicholas Dodd	....	orchestrator
John Goodwin	....	musician: Noah's 'Black Coats' Band
Brad Haehnel	....	music mixer
Brad Haehnel	....	score recordist
Sean Hayward	....	musician: Noah's 'Black Coats;' Band
Tony Lewis	....	music editor
Stuart Morton	....	assistant music editor
Chris Pelonis	....	musician: Noah's 'Black Coats' Band
The Philharmonia Orchestra	....	music performed by
Rob Simonsen	....	assistant to composer
Paul Talkington	....	music coordinator

Transportation Department
Sylvain Buteau	....	driver: Jeff Bridges
Jay Clement	....	driver
Tracy Demaer	....	transportation captain
Jim DeVilger	....	driver: honeywagon (as Jim 'J.D.' De Vlieger)
Natasha Getz	....	driver
Lorne Kurtz	....	driver
Sheila Richards	....	transportation coordinator
Gary Rimmer	....	driver: honeywagon
Danine Schlosser	....	driver
Dan Schulz	....	driver
Ryan Smiley	....	driver

Other crew
Daniel Auber	....	lettering
Matthew Baker	....	assistant: Jeremy Thomas
Andrea Baker-Fraser	....	assistant production coordinator (as Andrea Baker)
Jayda Bieber	....	stand-in
Moraea Bieber	....	stand-in
Chris Boha	....	assistant craft service
Stephanie Boha	....	assistant craft service
Lee Boyes	....	stand-in
Brent Braaten	....	production assistant: 'Dreamland' documentary
Melany Burant	....	stand-in
Richards Butler	....	legal services: Coamerica
Andrew Cannon	....	researcher: Canada
Loyd Catlett	....	assistant: Jeff Bridges
Simon Chin	....	extras wrangler
Nicky Coats	....	post-production accountant
Paul Compton	....	office production assistant
Hudson Cooley	....	production coordinator
Emma Cooper	....	unit publicist
Ginger Corbett	....	publicist: international
Clare Coulter	....	legal services: production & financing, Olswang
Bruce Craiggs	....	train coordinator: George's Trains
James Crammond	....	post-production accountant
Nigel Crook	....	first assistant accountant
Robin Crumley	....	technical supervisor: 'Dreamland' documentary
Mike Currie	....	caterer: Jeff the Chef
Susanna David	....	script supervisor
Gloria DiFolco	....	assistant: Gabriella Martinelli
Tony Duarte	....	legal services: production
Kevin Dube	....	caterer: Jeff the Chef
Dana Dubé	....	head animal trainer: Animal Insight (as Dana Dube)
Kari Fonkalsrud	....	second assistant accountant
Ian Gardner	....	trainee production coordinator
Matt Gauci	....	avid technical support
Amy Gilliam	....	assistant: Terry Gilliam
Holly Gilliam	....	on-set production assistant
Kim Goddard-Rains	....	production coordinator
Hilary Goldstein	....	legal services: financing, Goodmans LLP
Bill Graham	....	train supervisor: George's Trains
William Hall	....	insect and animal wrangler: Animal Insight
Simon Haywood-Anderson	....	assistant location manager
John Holzer	....	security coordinator
Jackie Hurt	....	legal services: production & financing, Olswang
Joe Iacono	....	financial services
Alana Katz	....	business affairs: Capri Films
Jacqueline Kelly	....	financial services
Philippa King	....	business affairs: Capri Films
Val Kinistino	....	assistant craft service
Walter Klassen	....	manufacturer: doll heads
Nathalie Laporte	....	production accountant: Canada
Florence Larsonneur	....	legal & business affairs: Recorded Picture Company
Lauren 'Fluff' Lindsay	....	craft service
Lauren 'Fluff' Lindsay	....	first aid
Sophia Lofters	....	travel coordinator
Mike Macartney	....	train coordinator assistant: George's Trains
Murray Macdonald	....	location manager (as Murray MacDonald)
Raymond Mackintosh	....	studio technician
Richard Mansell	....	legal & business affairs: Recorded Picture Company
Michael Maxtone-Smith	....	legal affairs: Coamerica (as Michael Maxtone Smith)
Brad McDonald	....	insect and animal wrangler: Animal Insight
Ally Mee	....	title designer: Fig Productions
Sharon Menzies	....	business affairs: Prescience Film Finance
Greg Morley	....	location scout
Richard Morrison	....	title designer: Fig Productions
Anna Maria Muccilli	....	publicist: Canada
Vincenzo Natali	....	director: making of documentary 'Dreamland'
Jeff Nelson	....	caterer: Jeff the Chef
Loren North	....	caterer: Jeff the Chef
Karin Padgham	....	assistant: Jeremy Thomas
Caroline Perjesi	....	assistant: Nick O'Hagan
Tracey Phillips	....	second assistant accountant
Valancie Pierce	....	tutor: Jodelle Ferland
Chris Plumb	....	location manager
Tammi Running	....	assistant security coordinator (as Tami Running)
Libby Savill	....	legal services: production & financing, Olswang
Kristen Schneider	....	accounting clerk
Carl Scott	....	caterer: Jeff the Chef
Jason Shabatoski	....	assistant: Gabriella Martinelli
Kayleigh Shikanai	....	stand-in
Andrew Simpson	....	animal coordinator: Animal Insight
Michael Simpson	....	assistant craft service
Cherie Smid	....	head squirrel trainer, assistant rabbit trainer
Tim Smith	....	managing director: Prescience Film Finance
Bill Sorochan	....	location scout (as William Sorochan)
Carolyn Stamegna	....	legal services: financing, Goodmans LLP
Carle Steele	....	script trainee (as Carle Steel)
Jack Thomas	....	on-set production assistant
Marla Touw	....	assistant production coordinator: Katepwa
Thierry Valletoux	....	reportage
Dean Wares	....	title typography
Ken Whitford	....	office production assistant
Steve Zazulak	....	location manager
Steve Zazulak	....	production assistant

Thanks
Hercules Bellville	....	special thanks
P.J. Harvey	....	special thanks
Tim Haslam	....	special thanks
Dallas Jensen	....	special thanks
Jonathan Lynch-Staunton	....	special thanks
Sally-Anne McKeown	....	special thanks
James Shirras	....	special thanks
Alexandra Stone	....	special thanks
Jared Underwood	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Recorded Picture Company (RPC)
• HanWay Films (in association with)
• Téléfilm Canada (in association with)
• Foresight Film (in association with)
• Astral Media (in association with)
• Harold Greenberg Fund, The (in association with)
• Movie Network, The (TMN) (in association with)
• Canadian Television Fund (in association with)
• Movie Central (in association with)
• Corus (in association with)
• Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC) (with the assistance of)
• Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit (with the assistance of)
• National Lottery through UK Film Council (with the support of)
• Capri Films (uncredited)
• Prescience Film Fund (uncredited)
• Prescience (uncredited)

Distributors

• A-Film Distribution (2006) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• A-Film Distribution (2006) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Art Fest (????) (Bulgaria) (theatrical)
• Bac Films (????) (France) (theatrical)
• Budapest Film (????) (Hungary) (theatrical)
• Capri Films (2005) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Cinema Mondo (2006) (Finland) (theatrical) (festivals)
• Cinema Mondo (2007) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Continental Film (2007) (Slovakia) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Hollywood Classic Entertainment (2006) (Czech Republic) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• LNK Filmes (Portugal) (theatrical)
• Monolith (Poland) (theatrical)
• Monopole-Pathé (2006) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Myndform (Iceland) (theatrical)
• Noah Films (Israel) (theatrical)
• Odeon (Greece) (theatrical)
• Panorama Entertainment (Hong Kong) (theatrical)
• Revolver Entertainment (2006) (UK) (theatrical)
• THINKFilm (2006) (USA) (theatrical)
• Tuck (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) (theatrical)
• A-Film Home Entertainment (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Concorde Home Entertainment (2007) (Germany) (DVD) (retail version)
• EuroVideo (2007) (Germany) (DVD) (rental)
• Front Row Filmed Entertainment (2006) (United Arab Emirates) (all media) (Middle East)
• Maple Pictures (200?) (Canada) (DVD)
• Nelonen (2011) (2013) (Finland) (TV)
• Notro Films (2007) (Spain) (all media)
• Officine UBU (2007) (Italy) (all media)
• Pan Vision (2007) (Finland) (DVD)
• Pan Vision (2008) (Sweden) (DVD)
• Tarantula Films (2006) (Mexico) (all media)
• Tohokushinsha Film (2006) (Japan) (all media)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2007) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2007) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Velocity Home Entertainment (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2007) (Switzerland) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Caligari (prosthetic and special makeup effects)
• Peerless Camera Company (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Air Lyndhurst Studios  score mixed at (as AIR Lyndhurst)
• Amberwood Entertainment  animation courtesy of
• Animal Insight  animal coordination
• Caligari  prosthetics and special make-up effects
• Comerica Bank of California  bank financing (as Comerica)
• DeLuxe Laboratories  processing and prints
• Edit Hire (New Technology)  editing equipment supplied by (as Edit-Hire)
• Entertainment Partners Canada  payroll services provided by (as Entertainment Partners)
• Fig Productions  title design
• Film Finances  completion guarantor
• Fintage House  collection account management by
• George's Trains  trains provided by
• Goldcrest Post Production London  sound post-production
• Goldcrest Post Production London  sound re-recorded at (as Goldcrest Post production)
• Goodmans  legal services: financing (as Goodmans)
• Henry Wood Hall  music recorded at
• Iride s.r.l.  additional lighting supplied by (as Iride S.R.L.)
• Java Post Production  post-production
• Jeff the Chef  catering
• Jones Brown Insurance  insurance services
• Kodak Canada  film stock (as Kodak Canada)
• National Bank of Canada  additional bank financing
• ONE Post  digital intermediate
• Olswang  legal services: production and financing
• PS Production Services  Ariflex 535 cameras, lighting and grip equipment supplied by
• Prescience Film Fund  film financing (as Prescience Film Finance)
• Rights Company, The  script clearance
• Sapex Scripts  post-production script services
• Soho Images  film print by
• UK Computamatch  negative cutting (as Computamatch)

Also Known As:

"Rose in Tideland" - Japan (English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for bizarre and disturbing content, including drug use, sexuality, and gruesome situations - all involving a child, and for some language

Runtime:

120 min

Country:

UK | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Japan:R-15 | France:-12 | UK:15 | USA:R | Czech Republic:12 | Slovakia:12 | Finland:K-15 | Singapore:M18 | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:16 | Norway:18 | Australia:MA | Italy:VM14 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) | Canada:18A (Manitoba) (DVD rating) | South Korea:15 | Brazil:16 | Spain:18 | New Zealand:R16 | Mexico:C | Sweden:18

Filming Locations:

Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Company:

Recorded Picture Company (RPC)

Trivia:

Brendan Fletcher was cast for the role of Dickens before Terry Gilliam had ever met him. As said in an interview, he was cast after Terry was so incredibly impressed with his performance he saw on a tape sent to him.

Quotes:

Jeliza-Rose:He looks like a burrito.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Brows Held High: Tideland (#1.16)" (2011)

Soundtrack:

Lift Me Up To Sweet Jesus

The Age Of Unreason, Or...Why Terry Gilliam Can't Catch A Break

Poor Terry Gilliam. The visionary director just can't catch a break. Blessed with one of the most fertile imaginations in modern cinema, equally renowned as an animator, filmmaker, and iconoclast, he has made a handful of highly original, single-minded films, most of which are now considered classics (although it tends to take a few years before critical revisionism regards his work as such; I bet few recall The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen was first considered a costly bomb on par with Heaven's Gate). But of late he has had to suffer a critical beating for his mainstream-designed The Brothers Grimm, not to mention the well-documented collapse of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (why does the word schadenfreude come to mind?), and more often than not he is regarded as somewhat of a brilliant madman with integrity to burn, willing to battle Hollywood at any cost to keep his visions intact.

Now comes his adaptation of Mitch Cullin's Tideland, a category defying film that is at turns poetic, disgusting, absurd, and darkly funny (think the languid pacing of Spirit of the Beehive, the fever dream of Alice in Wonderland, the wry insanity Psycho, and a large dose of Terence Malik gone insane). In many ways, this is the purest Gilliam film since Brazil (a film that also borrowed liberally from other sources while maintaining its own originality), and hearkens back to the days when auteurs were not only allowed to follow their wildest muse but were expected to do so. And that, too, presents what will no doubt be Tideland's greatest failing, as well as its highest achievement. Cinema has become so cynical in the last twenty years - so narrow in scope and so entertainment driven - that anything which requires viewers to experience a motion picture on its own terms is usually greeted with scorn. These would be very tough times, indeed, for the likes of a young Fellini, Kubrick, and Lynch. That's not to say Tideland is a perfectly misunderstood creation, although it should be pointed out that those who are screaming foul about this film being pointless, self indulgent, and too weird are likely the very same people who ridiculed Grimm for being unoriginal, mainstream, and plain. Yes, there were walkouts at its screenings, gasps of shock, even angry grumbling. There were also laughs, applause, and continued debates concerning what the film was really about (how often does that occur these days after a screening?).

In the end, Tideland will likely please a select group who prefer to experience cinema rather than opposing it with their own expectations (there were those who were still talking about it two days following its premiere, even when they hated it). But for those who are anxiously wanting Time Bandits 2 or desire some degree of Pythonesque humor, Tideland will disturb, bore, and profoundly bother to the point of contempt. Nevertheless, it is a very unique and, at times, incredible film, infused with at least two amazing performances, beautiful photography, and one of the most enigmatic endings I've seen in ages.

Hate it or love it, few will be able to deny the lingering, ineffable vibrations left by this film, or that it stands as further proof that its director has stayed true to himself. Of course, prepare for the yin/yang laments to come in spades: Grimm would have been a better film had Gilliam been left to his own devices; Tideland would have been a better film had Gilliam not been left to his own devices. Poor Terry Gilliam; apparently he can do no right even when he does.