Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 10/13/2006(USA
Release Date: 02/27/2007
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2/DD5.1
Run Time: 121 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content, Children in Peril
Distributor/Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
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 Bridges) is a burnt-out
rock star whose post-superstar voyage to obscurity is hastened by a serious drug addiction that is also shared with his wild-eyed wife (
Jennifer Tilly). When the
Noah's increasingly erratic wife suffers a fatal overdose, the faded
rock star opts to escape the painful reality by retreating to a ramshackle remote home with his young daughter,
Jeliza-Rose (
Jodelle Ferland). Left to her own devices as her father stumbles about the grasslands in a drug-induced haze,
Jeliza-Rose soon ventures into her own fantasy land before making the acquaintance of mentally challenged youth
Dickens (
Brendan Fletcher). As the two become fast friends and
Jeliza-Rose joins the swimsuit-clad
Dickens in defeating the menacing shark that traverses the nearby railways, the pair are watched over by
Dickens' black-clad sister,
Dell (
Janet McTeer), who acts as
Dickens' guardian and whose overly enthusiastic interest in the art of taxidermy borders on obsessive.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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