SummaryTideland celebrates the resiliency of childhood and the power of the imagination as only Terry Gilliam could conceive it. (ThinkFilm)
Directed By:Terry Gilliam
Written By:Tony Grisoni, Terry Gilliam, Mitch Cullin
Tideland
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
26
User score
Generally Favorable
7.1
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
13% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
17% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
70% Negative
16 Reviews
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75
It's crazy, dangerous and sometimes gorgeous: a feast of nuttiness that takes you, for a while, over the edge.
50
Tideland is the easiest of Gilliam's films to follow, yet the most disturbing to watch.
User score
Generally Favorable
70% Positive
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
19% Mixed
7 Ratings
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11% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Apr 20, 2019
10
One of my favorite movies, where the leading actor is a young girl(others are The Fall (2006) and El Laberinto Del Fauno(2006)and El Espiritu de La Colmena(1973) and La cité des enfants perdus (1995)).
In portraying childish innocence and escape into imagination as the preferable alternative to reality, as the sanity of adult world fades, Gilliam is a master.
This film opened my eyes to Jodelle Ferland, although this movie set a high bar of expectation, which Ferland has yet to crawl over. Give her time- I love her talent. And Bridges dreamy, elusive character of a junkie, leaves room for her to take the lead. Well, the duality of adult world decay and childish hope just keeps me watching and forgetting time. Love it...
Jan 19, 2013
10
One of Gilliam' best. Beautiful, funny, dark. Most critics, it seems, we're too terrified by the image of a **** man kissing a young girl. It's worth noting that this is not a sexual kiss, it's a peck on the lips like any two children might do while playing. Anyone who interprets that scene as pedophilia needs to take long look at themselves because it's kind of creepy to read that much in to such an innocent scene.
38
A mix of "Alice in Wonderland" and William S. Burroughs, "Psycho" and the psychotic. It's pretty much a squirmy experience all around.
30
A misconceived washout of a darkly gothic story of madness, addiction and child abuse made all the more unpleasant by Gilliam's trademark intense visual style.
20
The worst that can be said of the first two-thirds of Tideland is that it is tiresome. Toward the end it becomes creepy, and not in a good way.
10
The misanthropic nadir of the director's crash-and-burn career.
0
Dour, absurdist, gruesomely awful.
May 18, 2014
9
One of my favorite movies. Memorable. It's sick, it's shocking, it's bizarre, disturbing. And I love it. It reminds me of Pan's Labyrinth, but I must say I like this one just a little bit better.
Feb 19, 2026
8
What can I say about the film that others already have? It's darkly tragic, it's grotesque, it's gorgeously filmed and cut together. A strange combination of surreal yet somehow familiar. A twisted fairytale that drags the audience kicking, screaming, and digging it's fingernails into the splintered floorboards of its derelict house of horrors. But also laughing in spots that beautifully break up the hellishnes. Yet withholding until I was tempted to switch the thing off to process what I'd just seen.
Oct 2, 2023
8
I really enjoyed this movie it made me feel things and uncomfortable levels that I have not experienced in a while and that is why appreciated it is beautiful to seed from a little girls eyes and know that this is 100% wrong on every level but she doesn't know that and she's now surrounded by crazy people so it's interesting to see what's happened.I really enjoyed this in a Canra angles. They used to Dutch angles all the time to give you a feeling of uneasiness.Every time everything happy happens, it feels like something horrible. That's gonna happen. I kept having this horror active feeling in my gut it was so an interesting feeling to have when a movie that tried hard possible to be happy and bright and you know looking through the eyes of a little girl.I cannot be sad if this movie is not from you. It is certainly stomach turning for what I experienced when I watch it with my friends, but it is worth seeing to see if you like it and at least to see any very interesting perspective of a movie.
Production Company:
- Recorded Picture Company (RPC)
- Capri Films
- HanWay Films
- Téléfilm Canada
- Foresight Film
- Astral Media
- The Harold Greenberg Fund
- The Movie Network (TMN)
- Canadian Television Fund
- Movie Central
- Corus
- Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC)
- Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit
- National Lottery through UK Film Council
- Capri Films
- Hindsight Media
Release Date:Oct 13, 2006
Duration:2 h
Rating:R
Tagline:The squirrels made it seem less lonely
Awards
Genie Awards
• 6 Nominations
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 1 Nomination
