Alice in Wonderland (1999 film)
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| Directed by | Nick Willing |
| Produced by | Dyson Lovell |
| Written by | Lewis Carroll (novel) Peter Barnes (screenplay) |
| Starring | Tina Majorino Whoopi Goldberg Ben Kingsley Christopher Lloyd Peter Ustinov Robbie Coltrane Miranda Richardson George Wendt Gene Wilder Martin Short Liz Smith |
| Music by | Richard Hartley |
| Cinematography | Stefan Lange Giles Nuttgens |
| Editing by | Alex Mackie |
| Distributed by | Hallmark Entertainment |
| Release date(s) |  February 28, 1999 |
| Running time | 129 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$21,000,000 |
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Alice in Wonderland was a television movie first broadcast in 1999, based upon Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Tina Majorino played the lead role of Alice, and a number of well-known performers portrayed the eccentric characters whom Alice meets during the course of the story, including Ben Kingsley, Martin Short, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Ustinov, Gene Wilder, and Miranda Richardson.
The film won four Emmy Awards in the categories of costume design, makeup, music composition, and visual effects.
The film follows the storyline of the book closely, save for adding some scenes from Through the Looking Glass. It also changes the opening "real world" scene from Alice and her sister sitting at a riverbank to Alice in her bedroom, reluctantly practicing the song "Cherry Ripe", which she is expected to perform at a garden party. (The party guests are played by the same actors as the Wonderland characters, and are shown as resembling them in appearance and personality, in a similar manner to the MGM version of The Wizard of Oz. The toys in Alice's room also reflect the residents of Wonderland) At the end of the film, Alice performs her party piece, but instead of "Cherry Ripe", she sings "The Lobster Quadrille".
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