Go Ask ‘Alice in Wonderland’ With Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway

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CHICAGO – It’s like living in a dream. Director Tim Burton’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” uses 3-D magic for a timeless classic and creates gratitude for this current era of technology and creativity.

Rating: 5.0/5.0

The Walt Disney Production features Alice (newcomer Mia Wasikowska), introduced as a special child. The daughter of a world explorer and dreamer, young Alice is afflicted with feverish visions about another realm that seems as real as the world around her. When she grows up – and after her father has died – she is set up through her station to marry the most genteel Lord in the region. Except she doesn’t love him.

Help is on the way in a form of a clock wielding White Rabbit. The creature is oddly familiar to the grown-up Alice, and dutifully she follows him down the rabbit hole. As she plunges, those childhood visions are about to become her new reality and most adventurous challenge.

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Not in Kansas Anymore: Mia Wasikowska as Alice in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Photo credit: © Disney Enterprises, Inc.

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