Tideland Synopsis:
Jeliza Rose is a young child in a very unusual situation - both parents are junkies. When her mother dies, she embarks on a strange journey with her father, Noah, a rock'n roll musician well past his time.
The film drifts between reality and fantasy as Jeliza - Rose escapes the vast loneliness of her new home into the fantasy world that exists in her imagination. In this world fireflies have names, bog - men awaken at dusk, and squirrels talk. The heads of four dolls, long since separated from their bodies, keep her company: Mystique, Baby Blonde, Glitter Gal and Sateen Lips, until she meets Dickens, a mentally damaged young man with the mind of a ten-year-old.
Dressed in a wet suit and speedo, he spends his days hiding out in junk heaped wig-warm turned submarine, waiting to catch the monster shark that inhabits the railway tracks. Then there's his older sister Dell, a tall ghost-like figure dressed in black who hides behind a beekeeper's mesh hood.
As optimistic as it is surreal, as humorous as it is suspenseful- Tideland is a celebration of the power of a child's imagination.
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