Films of Tim Burton: Alice in Wonderland

Please join us on Sunday, September 30 at 2 p.m. for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010, 115 min) on the sixth floor of the Mid-Manhattan Library.

This screening is part of the series Films of Tim Burton. All screenings are FREE and seating is first-come, first-served.

Summary: Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American computer-animated/live action fantasy dark comedy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton. The film stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen, Matt Lucas and Stephen Fry. The film is inspired by Lewis Carroll's 1865 fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. Wasikowska plays the now nineteen-year-old Alice who, 13 years after her previous visit, returns for the first time as a young woman. She is told that she is the only one who can slay the Jabberwocky, a dragon-like creature controlled by the Red Queen who terrorizes Wonderland's inhabitants.

"Burton's signature gnarled, gothic aesthetic runs through Alice. It's worth the price of admission if only to hear Depp give sonorous voice to Carroll's slithy toves and borogoves, but it's the women who steal the show, from the somber, self-possessed Wasikowska...to Bonham Carter's scenery-chewing tantrums, to Hathaway's very funny turn as a too-too good girl."
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

Please contact Karen Ginman at karenginman@nypl.org or Thomas Knowlton at thomasknowlton@nypl.org if you have any questions.