In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a fifteen-year-old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
Director:
Dave McKean
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Title: Mirrormask (2005)
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Fantasy
Director:
Dave McKean
Stars:
Ben Daniels,
Dervla Kirwan,
Stephanie Leonidas
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Director:
Toshihiko Nishikubo
Stars:
Masahiro Anzai,
Steve Bulen,
Michael Forest
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| Stephanie Leonidas | ... | Helena / Anti-Helena | |
| Jason Barry | ... | Valentine | |
| Rob Brydon | ... | Morris Campbell / Prime Minister | |
| Gina McKee | ... | Joanne Campbell / Queen of Light / Queen of Shadows | |
| Dora Bryan | ... | Aunt Nan | |
| Stephen Fry | ... | Librarian | |
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Andy Hamilton | ... | Small Hairy |
| Simon Harvey | ... | Sphinx | |
| Lenny Henry | ... | Cops 1-4 | |
| Robert Llewellyn | ... | Gryphon | |
| Eryl Maynard | ... | Mrs. Bagwell | |
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Eve Pearce | ... | Future Fruit Lady |
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Nik Robson | ... | Pingo / Bing (as Nik Robinson) |
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Victoria Williams | ... | Nurse |
| Rick Allen | ... | Man In a Box | |
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In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year-old girl named Helena who works at the family circus with her father and mother, who wishes--quite ironically--that she could run away from the circus and join 'real life'. But such is not to be the case, as she finds herself on a strange journey into the Dark Lands, a fantastic landscape filled with giants, Monkeybirds and dangerous sphinxes. She must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get back home. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}
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EnglishRelease Date:
3 March 2006 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$4,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$126,449, 2 October 2005, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$864,959, 11 December 2005Company Credits
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[flies away on book]
Helena: Right, umm... Nasty... Poorly paced book, with a soppy ending that I didn't believe in FOR ONE MINUTE!
[flies after Valentine]
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Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Performed by Josefine Cronholm
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Was nominated for the William Shatner Golden Groundhog Award for Best Underground Movie. The other nominated films were Green Street Hooligans (2005), Nine Lives (2005), Up for Grabs (2004) and Opie Gets Laid (2005). See more »Goofs
Dwarf actor Peter Burroughs is misspelled in the end credits. See more »Quotes
Valentine: No no no, it's really gotta feel like it's being rejected. Grr, horrible, offensive, badly constructed book.[flies away on book]
Helena: Right, umm... Nasty... Poorly paced book, with a soppy ending that I didn't believe in FOR ONE MINUTE!
[flies after Valentine]
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Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Into the Blue/Serenity/The Greatest Game Ever Played/Mirrormask/Capote/The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio (2005) See more »Soundtracks
Close to YouWritten by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Performed by Josefine Cronholm
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This is a visually mesmerizing film that takes movie fantasy into new territory. Think Alice in Wonderland meets Wizard of Oz performed by Cirque de Soleil. MirrorMask takes a comic-book approach to Good vs. Evil, with 15-year-old Helena as the protagonist who must find the MirrorMask and save the Light Kingdom.
But the story isn't nearly as important as the fantastic creatures and hallucinatory imagery that parade non-stop through Helena's fantastic journey. Director and writer (and frequent collaborators) Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman leap into the movie business with extraordinary confidence and derring-do. They are both legendary successes and have a devoted fan base from comic books (the Sandman series, for one), novels, short stories, posters, CD art, and much more.
It quickly becomes clear that MirrorMask is the creation of talented and imaginative artists completely unfettered by the bounds of traditional film-making. As a result, it is a bold departure from anything you have ever seen on the screen before. The story is simple enough and the visuals so wondrous that most children should find the movie enjoyable (unless they've become action-oriented adrenaline addicts). Yet the writing is sufficiently deep to satisfy the most thoughtful of adults.
I spoke to both McKean and Gaiman at one of the Sundance screenings and found them both polite, thoughtful and interesting. I told them that MirrorMask was the kind of movie I wanted to see again immediately. It is lovely enough to warrant a second look. And there's enough meat on the bones to go back and catch what you might have missed. The last movie I felt that way about was Memento, one of my all-time favorites.