There are some impressive visual moments but ultimately this is like watching an annoying child running around and shrieking about her imaginary friends for two hours.
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09/23/06
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Tideland (2006)
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Reviews Counted:70
Fresh:19
Rotten:51
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Tideland is a disturbing, and mostly unwatchable effort from Terry Gilliam.
Theatrical Release:Oct 13, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Terry Gilliam, the director of such fantasies as TIME BANDITS, BRAZIL, and THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, tells a very different kind of story in TIDELAND. Based on the novel by Mitch Cullin... [More]
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Jodelle Ferland, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Reviews for Tideland
Horrendous and terrible and borderline unwatchable -- the most depressing film by a major filmmaker in recent memory.
11/01/06
As unwatchable as a train wreck.
12/12/06
Appropriately, Tideland ends with a train wreck.
10/15/06
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05/05/07
This time [Gilliam] has stumbled into a different no-man’s land, the one between the merely bad and the completely indefensible.
10/12/06
Top CriticThe film has nary a gram of human reality or compassion anywhere in it.
10/13/06
Top CriticBecomes an excruciating exercise in gothic excess and progressively more disgusting imagery.
10/26/06
Tideland is flawed but it's still a must-see for anyone who considers themselves a fan of Gilliam.
11/12/06
When the little girl tells her decapititated doll, 'It's not just a bad dream,' she is right. It's just a bad movie.
11/02/06
It's yet another example of the undeniably imaginative filmmaker (Time Bandits, Brazil, 12 Monkeys) frittering away a movie with ugly visuals and even more unpleasant behavior.
10/20/06
Terry Gilliam’s first collaboration with Jeff Bridges yielded The Fisher King. This time around, it amounts to something a whole lot fishier.
10/18/06
Never quite coheres . . . But Gilliam has still made an admirable--and, at times, daring--oddity . . . disturbingly different from most celluloid childhoods.
01/26/07
It's no masterpiece, but it is a haunting, serious picture.
10/10/06
This is supposed to be a comedy, but it's not easy to laugh at the dire situation that surrounds this innocent girl.
12/15/06
if there was ever a film to end a career, Tideland is it.
10/12/06
Well, I'm Chris Hewitt, and I have a confession to make: I hated this film.
11/02/06
It seems, from the flat-out filmic disaster of "Tideland," that director Terry Gilliam is intent on ensuring a decisive end to his checkered filmmaking career.
04/24/09
The literal train wreck that caps the film is an apt metaphor for this hallucinatory fiasco.
11/02/06
Tideland contains more shining, jewel-like moments than most films. It will reward your patience.
09/23/06
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