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Tideland, based on a novel by Mitch Cullin, concerns the Alice-in-Wonderland-like adventures of young Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland), who is left orphaned by the death of her junkie parents (Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly) and lights out for a remote farmhouse situated upon a Wyeth-like cornfield. Here she falls in with a couple of crazies, hears squirrels talk, and communes with her four headless dolls.
It's a fractured dreamworld in which Gilliam gets so involved that it's as if he forgets that he is directing a movie. The result is deeply tiresome.
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