Fear and Loathing in Wonderland

Junky parents. An overimaginative daughter whose best friends are Barbie-heads. Mother addicted to chocolate, who does not let her daughter touch her chocolate bars. Daughter prepares heroin shots for her father. Mother dies, father and daughter go to his old home. Father farts in the bus and blames his daughter for it. Father dies of drug-overdose, and the daughter thinks he is on one of his trips. Father's one-eyed old flame lives nearby with her mentally challenged brother and the dead body of their mother. She services the grocery-boy for his favors. Which the daughter sees. Dead father's body is preserved by his old flame, and the four of them start living like a family.The brother and the daughter become close friends, at times kissing each other. When her stomach growls, they think she's pregnant. A squirrel in the attic. And an explosive climax.

Of course, there's much more to Tideland than just that.

We live in such antiseptic times that movies like Tideland, which show no regard for proprieties and conventions and which are almost delightful in their disgustedness, are rare gems worth treasuring. Terry Gilliam, after Brazil and the fantastic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, is in full-form again. This movie, labeled by critics (the few who didn't pan it) as a hybrid between Psycho and Alice in Wonderland, is definitely going to elicit a strong response from you. Disgust or Delight, depends on how successfully you have tamed your imagination.