Tideland

Following the death of her drug-addicted mother, a whimsical young girl follows her chemically dependent father to a remote prairie house to discover a wondrous world of magical fireflies and nocturnal bog men in this hallucinatory childhood fantasy from visionary filmmaker Terry Gilliam. Noah (Jeff ...more

Terry Gilliam has never directed a totally mainstream film, but none of his work could be characterized as downright inaccessible until now. In fact, Tideland is so out there, Gilliam personally delivers a forewarning on the DVD, acknowledging that many viewers will hate this movie. (Perhaps this preamble was a way to take back the power from those critics who'd already told him as much). As is often the case when Gilliam misfires, it's much more fundamental than a question of minor decisions ...more