This film is yet to be released on DVD.
Luckily, Youtube came to my rescue and I watched the whole of Dreamchild last night. Personally I thought it was brilliant, but the flashback scenes are really the only bits that interested me, I found that the 1930s stuff got in the way a bit. I didn't care much for the whole Lucy/Guy-from-the-OC-who's-a-reporter* subplot. 
Even though it did help you to understand the sort of person little Alice grew up to be.However I found the flashback scenes, the scenes with Carroll in, to be very sinister indeed. They seemed to portray him as a leering pedophile, who stares creepily at Alice at every possible opportunity. *SPOILER ALERTS POSSIBLE, IF YOU'RE BOTHERED ABOUT THAT KIND OF THING, WHICH YOU MIGHT BE.....BUT THEN AGAIN, YOU MIGHTN'T, FOR WHOEVER GOT IN TOO MUCH OF A FUSS ABOUT A SPOILER. WHO EVEN CAME UP WITH THE WORD? IT'S CERTAINLY A QUEER SORT OF PHRASE, 'SPOILER'. YOU MIGHT AS WELL CALL IT A 'GIVE-AWAYER'.*
The scene in the darkroom, where he gets on the verge of telling Alice "I love you" just seemed too...much. Didn't help that the music was quite creepy as well. But I thought Ian Holm played Carroll very well, and I liked the fact they didn't ham up his stutter too much as to be distracting. He gets across a great sense of sadness, and he always holds back in fear of telling Alice how he "really feels". My heart broke in the scene when Alice and the girls laugh at him when he sings The Lobster Quadrille on the riverbank, I felt like smacking her one.
And the use of real locations (it was actually filmed at Christ Church College) gives it a level of authenticity.But the film also hints that Carroll may even have molested Alice, which also made me sad. However the fantasy sequences, for example the Tea Party scene, are really good, as the characters are almost decayed with age. And the bit in the 1930s where Alice, abandoned by Lucy, goes crazy and sees Lewis Carroll in the mirror looking sadly at her was borderline horror-movie. It's freaky!
So what do you guys think about it? Have any of you seen it? It IS a good film, though it concentrates more on Alice Liddell/Hargreaves rather than Carroll himself. Perhaps one day someone will make a decent biopic of him that doesn't portray him as a possible child-molester. Those of you who haven't seen it, check Youtube.
*You must understand that I LOATH the OC, but as my sister loves it and has the DVDs I've seen bits of it with him in it. The day I start liking the OC, the whole world will turn into a cushion made of marmalade and tippex.
