Dreamchild (1985)

Set in 1932, Mrs. Alice Hargreaves, the 80-year old Alice that was Lewis Carroll's muse as a girl, has gone to New York to accept an honourary degree on the occasion of his centenary.  Beautifully played by the elegant English actress Coral Browne (then Mrs. Vincent Price), she brings her Victorian sensibilities to the vulgarities of the New World.  She can barely remember her childhood and is too aware of her own mortality, but memories come in flashback and she encounters the characters from her past and from Carroll's tale.  With a literate script by Dennis Potter and creatures from Jim Henson's workshop, this is not a film for everyone; it is, however, a lovely meditation on youth and age.  It is not, however, a film for children since one is made well aware of the attraction young Alice holds for the Rev. Doddson -- and we all know what that is called nowadays.