Paperhouse (1989)
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 0
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Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 0
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Eleven-year-old Charlotte Burke, the neglected daughter of Ben Cross and Glenne Headley, passes out on the school playground and dreams of visiting a house she'd previously drawn in her composition book. She imagines another visit to her "paper house" while playing hide-and-seek. Experimenting, Burke draws a figure in the window of the house; the next time she dreams, she meets a young boy, as lonely as she. Convinced that she wields a large degree of power in her pencil, Burke draws a picture
Cast
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Charlotte Burke
Anna Madden -
Ben Cross
Dad -
Glenne Headly
Kate -
Elliott Spears
Mark -
Gemma Jones
Dr. Sarah Nichols -
Sarah Newbold
Karen -
Jane Bertish
Miss Vanstone -
Gary Bleasdale
Policeman -
Samantha Cahill
Sharon -
Karen Gledhill
Nurse -
Barbara Keogh
Hotel Receptionist -
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Steven O'Donnell
Dustman
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All Critics (12) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (0)
The scenes of Anna running around mountains in a moment of escape or toward an enormous lighthouse don't have the feel of something whitewashed like The Sound of Music but rather the dark undercurrent of the delusions of the girls in Heavenly Creatures.
A mesmerizing English film exploring the dreamscapes of a lonely eleven-year old girl.
A real sleeper: charming, scary, enthralling
More peculiar than actually good.
Loses the children's audience that might have otherwise been attracted to the story
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