Paperhouse

Paperhouse

1988 · 92 min · EN · PG-13 · 6.6 (123 votes)
Dir. Bernard Rose · Starring Charlotte Burke, Elliott Spiers, Glenne Headly, Gemma Jones, Ben Cross, Jane Bertish · Music Hans Zimmer

A drawing that became a dream. A dream that became reality.

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A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.

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A hauntingly beautiful descent into a child's inner world. It feels like a half-remembered dream, where the mundane and the magical blur into a fragile, unsettling reality. The visuals are stark, the atmosphere thick with a quiet dread.

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