Synopsis
As a sullen 10-year-old girl named Chihiro (Daveigh Chase) mopes in the backseat of her parents’ car, her mother (Lauren Holly) tries to cheer her up. “Quit whining. It’s fun to move to a new place. It’s an adventure.” Winding up through the hills, her father (Michael Chiklis) seems to get them […]
Entries Tagged as 'Alternate universe'
Spirited Away (2001)
September 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Alternate universe · Animation · Beasts and monsters · Coming of age · No opening credits
Dragonslayer (1981)
September 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Synopsis
A band of travelers arrives to see the sorcerer Ulrich (Ralph Richardson). Having received a vision of fire and terror and a great task needing to be done, the old magician summons his apprentice Galen (Peter Macnicol) to hear the pleas of the delegation led by a punchy boy named Valerian (Caitlin […]
Tags: Alternate universe · Beasts and monsters · Dreams and visions
Brazil (1985)
May 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Synopsis
“Somewhere in the 20th century” a bomb - apparently planted by terrorists - explodes in a department store window. A clerical error at the Ministry of Information dispatches a team of stormtroopers to the wrong address, resulting in an innocent family […]
Tags: Alternate universe · Ambiguous ending · Bathtub scene · Black comedy · Cult favorite · Dreams and visions · Interrogation · Man vs. machine
Tron (1982)
April 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Synopsis
In an electronic world that exists within our own, a power hungry Master Control Program dominates other programs by kidnapping and matching them on a game grid against his sadistic emissary Sark (David Warner). The enslaved programs debate the […]
Tags: Alternate universe · Cult favorite · Man vs. machine · No opening credits









