| Alice in Wonderland | |
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| Based on | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll |
| Screenplay by | Peter Barnes |
| Directed by | Nick Willing |
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| Composer | Richard Hartley |
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| Original language | English |
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| Executive producers | Robert Halmi, Sr. Robert Halmi, Jr. |
| Producer | Dyson Lovell |
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| Editor | Alex Mackie |
| Running time | 129 minutes |
| Production companies | Hallmark Entertainment Babelsberg International Film Produktion |
| Budget | $21 million |
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| Network | NBC |
| Release | February 28, 1999 |
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Alice in Wonderland is a 1999 made-for-television film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). It was first broadcast on NBC and then shown on British television on Channel 4.
Tina Majorino played the lead role of Alice and a number of well-known performers portrayed the eccentric characters whom Alice meets during the course of the story, including Ben Kingsley, Martin Short, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Ustinov, Christopher Lloyd, Gene Wilder, George Wendt, Robbie Coltrane and Miranda Richardson. In common with most adaptations of the book, it includes scenes and characters from Through the Looking-Glass.
The film won four Emmy Awards in the categories of costume design, makeup, music composition and visual effects.
The film was re-released as a special edition DVD on March 2, 2010, no special features were included, however the film was restored to its original speed as prior releases suffered from PAL speed up. A rare behind-the-scenes documentary of the film was released to YouTube in 2019, the 20th anniversary of the film's release.