Squirrel Butts Don't Glow: Tideland Fanlisting

About Tideland (Synopsis taken from the Official Site)

Described by Director Terry Gilliam as 'Alice in Wonderland meets Psycho', and based on the critically acclaimed novel of the same name, Tideland depicts the world of Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland), a world where fireflies have names, squirrels talk, and the heads of four dolls, long since separated from their bodies, keep her company.

Both Jeliza-Rose's parents are junkies. When her mother (Jennifer Tilly) dies, she embarks on a strange journey with her father, Noah (Jeff Bridges), a rock and roll musician well past his prime. The film drifts between reality and fantasy as Jeliza-Rose escapes the vast loneliness of her new existence into the fantasy world created in her own mind.

The film drifts between reality and fantasy as Jeliza-Rose escapes the vast loneliness of her new existence into the fantasy world that exists in her imagination. In this world fireflies have names, squirrels talk, and the heads of four dolls, long since separated from their bodies, keep her company: Mystique, Baby Blonde, Glitter Gal and Sateen Lips, until she meets Dickens (Brendan Fletcher), a mentally damaged young man with the mind of a ten-year-old. Dressed in a wet suit and diving mask, he spends his days hiding out in a junk heaped wig-wam turned submarine, waiting to catch the monster shark that inhabits the railway tracks. Then there's his older sister Dell (Janet McTeer), a tall ghost-like figure dressed in black who hides behind a beekeeper's mesh hood.

As optimistic as surreal, as humorous as it is suspenseful, Tideland is a celebration of the power of a young child's imagination.

Links: Official Site; IMDB profile; Wikipedia entry (WARNING!! Contains spoilers for movie!)

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