Slumberland

Name: Slumberland
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure
Released: 2022-11-18
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Marlow Barkley, Jason Momoa, Chris O'Dowd, Kyle Chandler, Weruche Opia

Every adventure begins with a dream.

Slumberland (2022)

Timing: 1:57 (117 min)

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Release date

2022-11-18

Country

United States

Production

Chernin Entertainment, about:blank

Genre

Family, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure

Budget

$35 000 000

Box office

Website

https://www.netflix.com/title/81220825

Director

Francis Lawrence

Actors

Marlow Barkley, Jason Momoa, Chris O'Dowd, Kyle Chandler, Weruche Opia, India de Beaufort, Humberly González, Cameron Nicoll, Antonio Raine Pastore, Chris D'Silva
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Scenario

Producer

Francis Lawrence, Jenno Topping, Peter Chernin, David Ready, Ray Angelic, David Guion, Michael Handelman

Camera operator

Jo Willems

Composer

Pinar Toprak

Artist

Dominic Watkins, Nathan Blackie

Audition

Editing

Mark Yoshikawa
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Short description

A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.

What's left behind the scenes

Flip’s words, “Sometimes a pig is just a pig,” are a reference to the phrase attributed to Sigmund Freud: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” Literally in the following mise-en-scène, Flip mentions Freud himself.
The seagull named Bugsy is a reference to the famous gangster Benjamin Siegel, nicknamed “Bugsy,” who was instrumental in transforming Las Vegas into a gambling capital. His story is told in Barry Levinson’s crime drama “Bugsy” (1991).
The film is based on the comic strip series “Little Nemo in Slumberland” by Winsor McCay, which was published from October 15, 1905, to January 9, 1927. McCay is not mentioned anywhere in the credits.
In the film, Agent Green (played by Veruche Opia) realizes that everyone in the Land of Dreams has their own personal nightmare. Nemo’s nightmare involves a giant octopus, which is a reference to Jules Verne’s 1870 novel, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." The appearance of Kyle Chandler (playing Peter here) is a reference to James Mason, who played Captain Nemo in Richard Fleischer’s science fiction film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954). Captain Nemo fought a cephalopod nautilus there, not an octopus.
In Winsor McCay’s original comics, Flip is depicted as short and stout, with a cigar in his mouth. Overall, he gives the impression of a circus clown. Nemo in the comics is a boy.