By turns fascinating and intolerable, Terry Gilliam's uncompromising adaptation of Mitch Cullin's disquieting novel of adolescent fantasy and madness further cements Gilliam's reputation as a unique, visionary artist, while reducing his audience to only the most adventurous. By the time Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) settles into her late grandmother's derelict farmhouse on the vast, empty plains of what appears to be the American southwest, both her parents are dead. She and her junkie father (Jeff Bridges) fled the city shortly after finding mom (a particularly slatternly Jennifer Tilly) dead from a methadone overdose, and within hours of their arrival at his mother...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
120 mins