Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Jodelle FerlandJeliza-Rose/Voices Sateen Lips,Glitter Gal,Mustique,Baby Blonde
- Janet McTeerDell
- Jennifer TillyQueen Gunhilda
- Jeff BridgesNoah
- Brendan FletcherDickens
- Dylan TaylorPatrick
- Wendy AndersonWoman / Squirrel's Voice
- Sally CrooksDell's Mother
- Alden AdairLuke (uncredited)
- Mitch CullinBus Passenger (uncredited)
- 63
TV Guide Magazine
By turns fascinating and intolerable. - 58
The A.V. Club
It's no "trip through the dark to appreciate the light." It's a nightmare from start to finish. - 40
Village Voice
Gilliam has suffered more than his share of butchered projects, but with this exercise in kamikaze auteurism, he appears to have made exactly the mess he wanted. - 38
ReelViews
Tideland is, by turns, a complete bore and a creepy experience. And I don't mean "creepy" in a positive sense. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
A misconceived washout of a darkly gothic story of madness, addiction and child abuse made all the more unpleasant by Gilliam's trademark intense visual style. - 30
Variety
Dragged down by a sputtering script and torpid pacing. Way too disturbing for kids and too weird for most grown-ups. - 25
Christian Science Monitor
Borderline unwatchable, although, as is true of all Gilliam movies, it certainly is different. - 20
The New York Times
The worst that can be said of the first two-thirds of Tideland is that it is tiresome. Toward the end it becomes creepy, and not in a good way.