Through the Looking-Glass: A Ranking of Films Reflecting Lewis Carroll's Alice Books
by Cineanalyst | created - 07 Sep 2020 | updated - 08 Jul 2021 | PublicThis is a companion list to Down the Rabbit Hole: A Ranking of Films (Under)Grounded in Lewis Carroll's Alice Books, a ranking of films that are, more or less, straightforward adaptations, paratextual reworkings, parodies and sequels based in the text of Lewis Carroll's two Alice books, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass." Contrariwise, this list ranks films that significantly reflect or reference the books--either by blatant quotation, interesting development of those allusions, or both--but are largely about things other than Wonderland and Looking-Glass World.
Links to my reviews of the films provided below.
You may comment on my mirror-image ranking at Letterboxd, including checking any titles I tagged as "alice-books" but didn't include in my lists and suggest any title I may've missed even if it does upend the happy accident that my lists initially reflect each other in their numbers of entries of 24 and 42, respectively: https://boxd.it/8FNq8
(My average rating of ranked films: 6.2 stars)
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1. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Unrated | 193 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
Votes: 6,354 | Gross: $0.03M
Allusions to the White Rabbit with the two leads taking turns following each other as the other drops items, tarot cards, a spectating cat, an otherworldly house, a little girl, as well as to the boating, for an episodic and reflexive film by French New Wave filmmaker Jacques Rivette in a vein comparable to the books.
My Review
2. The Matrix (1999)
R | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 2,051,929 | Gross: $171.48M
Morpheus explicitly references "Alice in Wonderland," while Trinity tells Neo to follow the White Rabbit (a tattoo, in this case), among less-obvious allusions, both stylistic and psychedelic, for a narrative from the Wachowskis that is also about two worlds: one real and another a dream.
My Review
3. Yellow Submarine (1968)
G | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies.
Director: George Dunning | Stars: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon
Votes: 28,023 | Gross: $0.99M
Psychedelic limited animation featuring The Beatles, some of whose songs also allude to the Alice books. There are many sly Carrollian hints between the two worlds of this one, including a character who briefly transforms into an obvious image of the White Rabbit.
My Review
4. The Favourite (2018)
R | 119 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult
Votes: 233,181 | Gross: $34.37M
Best Picture nominee from the idiosyncratic Yorgos Lanthimos, its Alice allusions are debatable, but there are rabbits and a mad queen in this fish-eye view of a liberally interpreted historical court of Queen Anne.
My Review
5. Blood Tea and Red String (2006)
Not Rated | 71 min | Animation, Fantasy
A handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart's desire.
Director: Christiane Cegavske
Votes: 1,623
More debatable allusions, this time from a stop-motion animated fairy tale 13 years in the making. There are caterpillars with psychedelic effects, though, along with an Alice-like doll, chattering flowers, anthropomorphic animals, and a woodland setting, among other things. Plus, cards are played beside a raven--recalling the Hatter's famous riddle.
My Review
6. Spirited Away (2001)
PG | 125 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi
Votes: 848,739 | Gross: $10.06M
More slight inspirations from the Alice books for an original fairy tale, this time from famous animator Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli in the Oscar-winning Best Animated Feature. Again, we have two reflexive worlds, identity crises, plus there seem to be allusions here to the chapter "Pig and Pepper," with parents turning pigs and a witch with a baby seemingly inspired by the illustrations of John Tenniel.
My Review
7. Jabberwocky (1971)
14 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Lewis Carroll's poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 1,505
8. Queen of Hearts (2019)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
A successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.
Director: May el-Toukhy | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Gustav Lindh, Magnus Krepper, Liv Esmår Dannemann
Votes: 14,487
The English interpretation of this Danish title, "Queen of Hearts," rather gives the "Alice in Wonderland" theme away. There's a great stylistic looking-glass motif, plus the titular queen has twin daughters whom she reads to at least one of Carroll's books.
My Review
9. Us (II) (2019)
R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Adelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them.
Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker
Votes: 340,852 | Gross: $175.08M
Jordan Peele's sophomore horror movie is replete with mirror images, both literal and reflexive doppelgängers. Plus, there are rabbits, which besides working with the biblical Easter theme, may do double service as underground allusions to "Alice in Wonderland."
My Review
10. Alice's Wonderland (1923)
12 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Alice visits an animation studio, where the animators show her various scenes on their drawing boards. A few of them: a cat dancing to a cat band; a mouse poking at a (live) cat until it ... See full summary »
Directors: Walt Disney, Hugh Harman, Carman Maxwell | Stars: Virginia Davis, Walt Disney, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising
Votes: 826
Walt Disney's first effort in his decades-spanning interest in cinematic transmutations of Carroll's books transports a little (live-action) girl named Alice to a dreamworld, "Cartoonland," reflexive of the animation studio she visits.
My Review
11. Porky in Wackyland (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Porky Pig goes on a hunt to catch the surreally elusive last Do-Do bird.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Robert Clampett, Bernice Hansen
Votes: 2,269
Loose Looney Tunes parody with some clever allusions involving the Do-Do and Porky Pig.
My Review
12. Alice or The Last Escapade (1977)
93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Alice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Fernand Ledoux, François Perrot
Votes: 1,245
Another one from the French New Wave, Claude Chabrol includes a protagonist named Alice Carroll for an explicit reference, while the rest of the picture includes an otherworldly haunted house through the looking-glass of her broken car window. Plus, there's a mysterious door and some interesting, if misogynistic, stuff is done with the cinematic gaze.
My Review
13. Coraline (2009)
PG | 100 min | Animation, Drama, Family
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, an 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Jennifer Saunders
Votes: 263,621 | Gross: $75.29M
Full of obvious if not always explicit references to "Alice in Wonderland" from a book that is also Carrollian. Stop-motion animation about a little girl who, like Alice, also travels to a reflexive dreamworld via a tunnel and through a door. Features one of the better variations of the Cheshire Cat.
My Review
14. Still Alice (2014)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama
A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland | Stars: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth
Votes: 143,446 | Gross: $18.75M
Julianne Moore finally won an Oscar for her portrayal of this Alice, who likewise faces an identity crisis (in this case, brought on by Alzheimer's Disease). Meanwhile, her daughter played by Kristen Stewart provides the reflexivity of an actress-playing-an-actress. I also suspect there's a sly allusion here to Carroll's Caterpillar with a butterfly necklace.
My Review
15. Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama
Confounded by her clashes with the seemingly rule-obsessed world, a troubled young girl seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher.
Director: Daniel Barnz | Stars: Elle Fanning, Patricia Clarkson, Felicity Huffman, Bill Pullman
Votes: 8,078 | Gross: $0.07M
From the title forward, this one is full of blatant Carrollian references, including the little girl playing in an "Alice in Wonderland" play, along with a mother writing a book about the Alice books, and the girl faces a crisis in distinguishing reality and dreamworld.
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16. The Monster (1925)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A meek clerk who doubles as an amateur detective investigates some very strange goings-on at a remote mental sanitarium.
Director: Roland West | Stars: Lon Chaney, Gertrude Olmstead, Hallam Cooley, Johnny Arthur
Votes: 1,363
Debatable allusions to the Alice books in the old-dark-house silent film, although the ones to Shakespeare's "The Tempest" are bit more obvious with the mad doctor and an assistant named Caliban, as is the "Watson" and Arthur Conan Doyle "Sherlock Holmes" parody, but characters do enter a (literal) mad house through a mirror and by falling down a sort of rabbit hole.
My Review
17. Mary and Gretel (1916)
7 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Mary and Gretel meet a fairy who promises them long life as long as they don't cut certain flowers. If not, the price is the head of them.
Director: Howard S. Moss
Votes: 150
A drunken White Rabbit makes an early appearance along with other fairy-tale characters in this charming early stop-motion animation.
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18. Where the Truth Lies (2005)
R | 107 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, David Hayman
Votes: 18,764 | Gross: $0.87M
Explicit reference with the "Alice in Wonderland" play-within-play, which underscores a highly reflexive noir complete with a lesbian sex scene between the two Alices--one of the scenes that may've got the movie its controversial NC-17 rating.
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19. Through the Looking Glass (1976)
X | 91 min | Adult, Horror
A rich socialite escapes her boring lifestyle when a ghost takes her to a sexual hell where anything goes.
Director: Jonas Middleton | Stars: Catharine Burgess, Jamie Gillis, Laura Nicholson, Kristen Steen
Votes: 468
And, if NC-17 weren't explicit enough, here's actual pornography from the so-called "Golden Age of Porn." With a title from Carroll's second Alice book, the narrative that's arguably more horror than stag film revolves around mirrors and two worlds, along with an Alice-like daughter who may face the same threat as her mother.
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20. Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Not Rated | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Visions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 14,712 | Gross: $0.08M
Fellini film with slight allusions to "Alice in Wonderland," including childhood trauma and dreams, mirrors and reflections, madness, a small door and a butterfly tattoo.
My Review
21. Alice (1990)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, William Hurt, Joe Mantegna, June Squibb
Votes: 15,335 | Gross: $7.33M
Woody Allen's reworking of the above Fellini film, the protagonist takes on a more explicit reference to Carroll's text with the "Alice" name. Plus, there's all the ingested transmogrification, including Cheshire Cat-like invisibility, along with a sort of mad tea party, spiral-induced hypnotic dreaming and Caterpillar-like hookah smoking, for a reflexive plot regarding the Alice taking control of her own story.
My Review
22. Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007)
3 min | Animation, Short
The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Votes: 68
The connection to the Alice books in this one are explicit and thorough, so much so that, come to think of it, may make it more deserving of inclusion in my other ranking. Brief stop-motion animation from the brothers Quay, there's the typical conflation of the two books with allusions to the mad tea party from Wonderland beside Alice's reflection trapped in a looking-glass nightmare.
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23. Malice in Wonderland (1982)
4 min | Animation, Short, Horror
Like 'Alice in Wonderland' - but surreal, sexual and utterly horrifying.
Director: Vince Collins
Votes: 477
Another one more for adults rather than children despite being a short cartoon, what with the obvious "Alice in Wonderland" allusions making rabbit holes out of vaginas. Exploits the transmogrification of the books well for a comparable animated style.
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24. Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1963)
75 min | Family, Fantasy
Olya and Yalo save the people of the looking glass from lies.
Director: Aleksandr Rou | Stars: Olga Yukina, Tatyana Yukina, Tatyana Barysheva, Andrei Stapran
Votes: 1,485
Here's a kid's film, however, although it's exploited for Soviet propaganda. An original fairy tale, it seems to borrow its mirror-motif reflexivity quite well from the Alice books.
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25. Tideland (2005)
R | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly, Jodelle Ferland, Janet McTeer
Votes: 34,681 | Gross: $0.07M
The better and more mature feature from Terry Gilliam on this list, from a book that's also Carrollian, it likewise feature a little girl creating a dreamworld to cope with the adult world. Plus, the "Alice in Wonderland" book is explicitly referenced as the book-within-the-book.
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26. Alicja (1982)
Unrated | 90 min | Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Alice falls in love with a jogger called Rabbit.
Directors: Jacek Bromski, Jerzy Gruza | Stars: Sophie Barjac, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Susannah York, Paul Nicholas
Votes: 159
Obvious references in this to "Alice in Wonderland," with characters taking their names from the corresponding ones from the books, although all of it is curiously employed for a rom-com musical.
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27. Poor Albert & Little Annie (1972)
R | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way...
Director: Paul Leder | Stars: Zooey Hall, Geri Reischl, Joanne Moore Jordan, Greg Mullavey
Votes: 458
Debatable allusions to the books here, where although there's a character named Alice, she's the maid and the mother of the little girl (who, ironically, would later star in "The Brady Bunch," which also featured a maid named Alice). The girl, however, does go on boat and train rides akin to episodes from the books with the creepy killer of this horror exploitation, as if testing the theory of Lewis Carroll's supposed pedophilia.
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28. The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)
R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.
Director: Francesco Barilli | Stars: Mimsy Farmer, Maurizio Bonuglia, Mario Scaccia, Jho Jhenkins
Votes: 2,996
Get through the boring parts that comprise most of this giallo and there are plentiful references to "Alice in Wonderland" in its bonkers final act. And the lead is played by an actress named "Mimsy" of all things.
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29. Lisa and the Devil (1973)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery
A tourist spends the night in a derelict Spanish villa seemingly held in the supernatural grip of an eccentric butler, who resembles a depiction of the Devil she had seen on an old fresco.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Alessio Orano
Votes: 5,342
And this giallo is more consistent although the "Alice in Wonderland" allusions are more debatable--mostly resting on a devilish character resembling the White Rabbit with the gloves and use of playing cards. The "Alice" also enters a haunted-house dreamworld through a painting.
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30. Alice in Acidland (1969)
Unrated | 55 min | Drama
College students Alice, who lives with her widower father, and nymphomaniac Kathy are invited to a pool party by their lesbian French teacher Frieda. Alice gets drunk and uses LSD, then ... See full summary »
Director: Donn Greer | Stars: Julia Blackburn, Roger Gentry, Donn Greer, Sheri Jackson
Votes: 680
Sexploitation seemingly made out of an outright stag film, the "Alice in Wonderland" references here are largely tacked on with the narration pretending the entire exercise to be an anti-drug and deviant sex cautionary tale--think "Reefer Madness," but more pornographic. This is arguably worth it, though, for its unique, psychedelic finale in color.
My Review
31.
The Animatrix (2003)
Episode:
A Detective Story
(2003)
Unrated | 10 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
A private detective is hired to track down the computer hacker known as Trinity. But as he gets close his goal, reality takes a weird turn for him.
Director: Shin'ichirô Watanabe | Stars: James Arnold Taylor, Carrie-Anne Moss, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Matt McKenzie
Votes: 5,645
Full of Looking-Glass references more explicit than the Wonderland ones in "The Matrix," the world from which this Animatrix short is derived. Kind of interesting in its mixture of the Alice books with noir.
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32. Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959)
Approved | 27 min | Animation, Short, Family
Donald's goes on an adventure in which it is explained how mathematics can be useful in real life. Through this journey it is shown how numbers are more than graphs and charts, they are geometry, music and magical living things.
Directors: Les Clark, Joshua Meador, Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Hannah, Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Jane Fowler, Paul Frees, Clarence Nash, Roman Yanez
Votes: 2,460
Educational animation from Disney with explicit references to Lewis Carroll, including that he was a mathematician, and the Alice books. Nominated for the Best Documentary Short Oscar.
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33. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A young programmer starts to question reality when he adapts a mad writer's fantasy novel into a video game.
Director: David Slade | Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Craig Parkinson, Alice Lowe, Asim Chaudhry
Votes: 136,225
Interactive Netflix feature with obvious allusions to the Alice books, including with the title adopting the word "bandersnatch," along with a white rabbit, doors, mirrors, drugs and dreamworlds.
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34. Jabberwocky (1977)
PG | 105 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A young peasant with no interest in adventure or fortune is mistaken for the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier, Warren Mitchell
Votes: 15,980
The lesser Terry Gilliam and "Jabberwocky" title on this list, the reference is obvious in the film's literalizing of Carroll's poem, although most of the picture is merely a parody of medieval fairy tales.
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35. Three's a Crowd (1932)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
An old man is reading a book by the fire. The clock strikes 8, and he heads off to bed. From his book, Alice in Wonderland, out crawls Alice, who turns the radio to the title tune. This ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolf Ising | Stars: Ken Darby, Rudolf Ising, The King's Men, Johnny Murray
Votes: 162
Alice is the pivotal character in this animated short where characters emerge from books for some shenanigans.
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36. Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966)
G | 52 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
After Wonderland, Alice dreams of going to Paris. A mouse named Francois, the grandson of Anatole, agrees to take her there if she will tell him her favorite cheese. Along the way they share several stories.
Director: Gene Deitch | Stars: Luce Ennis, Norma MacMillan, Howard Morris, Carl Reiner
Votes: 215
"Alice in Wonderland" serves as a framework for an anthology of short films that have rather little do with Carroll's texts.
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37. The Pagemaster (1994)
G | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A cowardly boy, who buries himself in accident statistics, enters a library to escape a storm, only to be transformed into an animated illustration by the Pagemaster. He has to work through obstacles from classic books to return to real-life.
Directors: Pixote Hunt, Joe Johnston | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Kanin Howell, Alexis Kirschner
Votes: 25,539 | Gross: $13.67M
Another film about characters emerging from books, although the "Alice in Wonderland" one here is more Disney than Carroll or Tenniel.
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38. Hellboy (2019)
R | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, Hellboy battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge.
Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane
Votes: 98,673 | Gross: $21.90M
Audiences and critics rightly panned this comic-book reboot--even its explicit "Through the Looking-Glass" references, including the book being within the picture, doesn't seem to have a good reason for being.
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39. The Last Mimzy (2007)
PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys. Soon the kids, their parents, and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine!
Director: Robert Shaye | Stars: Joely Richardson, Rainn Wilson, Timothy Hutton, Chris O'Neil
Votes: 22,217 | Gross: $21.47M
The allusions here are obvious--mainly "mimzy" being from "mimsy," of the Jabberwocky poem, which in the case of the movie is the name of a white rabbit from another world. Kiddie stuff.
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40. Resident Evil (2002)
R | 100 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan McCluskey, Oscar Pearce
Votes: 288,301 | Gross: $40.12M
More explicit references, but for choppy zombie action based on a video game this time. There's the lead being named Alice and a dreamchild hologram of sorts from an AI named "Red Queen."
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41. After Alice (2000)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A washed-up detective discovers his own psychic ability when assigned to investigate a serial murder case. The killer has a deranged obsession with the novel "Alice in Wonderland." As the ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Marcus | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Henry Czerny, Polly Walker, Gary Hudson
Votes: 1,798
Explicit and otherwise obvious references to the Alice books, including inclusion of the book within the movie, which is otherwise a direct-to-video detective procedural that borrows character names from Carroll, including the "Jabberwocky" serial killer, for no good reason.
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42. Puttin' on the Ritz (1930)
Passed | 88 min | Music, Musical, Romance
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, James Gleason, Aileen Pringle
Votes: 189
Early talkie backstage musical that has nothing to do with "Alice in Wonderland" except that one of those musical numbers is based on the book. Originally, it was in Technicolor, but the color is now lost and which would've been about the only highlight in this otherwise creaky and morally dubious picture.
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Cadbury commercial of a silent short film, it appropriates "Alice in Wonderland" for a chocolate-brown bunny and the offensive message that kids best put such pesky books down and get to being good consumers of their candy already.
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