Mirrormask

MirrorMask is a 2005 film about a fifteen-year-old girl drawn into a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms who must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
 * Directed by Dave McKean. Written by Neil Gaiman.

Enter A World Where Dreams Are Real.taglines

Valentine

 * I'm a very important man. I've got a tower.
 * We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
 * NOOOO, I DON'T WANNA BE A WAITER!!!
 * Look! An idiot!
 * My mum always said: "It's a dog-eat-dog world, son. You get them before they get you. Eat your greens. Please don't do that. Stop embarrassing me in front of the neighbors. I think it would be best if you just leave home and never come back!" She wasn't even really my mum.  She bought me from a man...
 * We just have to try the key in every single lock we pass, and when we find the one the key opens, we'll know that 10,000 bloody years have passed!!
 * We'll do things that rich people do. We'll bathe in... fish. And eat our weight in chocolate buttons!
 * I shall slip unnoticed throught the darkness, like a dark, unnoticed, slippy thing.

Other

 * Mrs. Bagwell: I remember I said to him: 'Mr Bagwell, how can a mask know what you need?' And he said: 'Cynthia, remember I don't know what I'm talking about.'

Dialogue

 * Joanne: All those kids in there want to run away and join the circus!
 * Helena: Great, they can have MY life! I want to run away and join real life!


 * Citizen: The charm.
 * Prime Minister: No, that's actually a chicken.
 * Citizen: The charm!
 * Prime Minister: I understand this must be quite painful for you, but really it is a chicken.
 * Chicken: I keep trying to tell him, he just doesn't listen!


 * (Helena offers to find the charm)
 * Prime Minister: My dear, it will be like looking for a needle - no, something smaller than a needle - in a haystack, when you don't even know if you're in the right field! I'm sorry, but all in all, it is completely, utterly, unarguably, quintessentually hopeless.
 * (The flower held by the sleeping Queen suddenly blooms)
 * Helena: What does that mean?
 * Prime Minister: It means... that it's maybe not quintessentually hopeless.


 * Sphinx: Hungry.
 * Valentine: Is this a riddle thing?
 * Sphinx: Hungry!
 * (Helena gives it her cake; the sphinx just bats at it)
 * Sphinx: Still hungry.


 * [The Gryphon has been unable to answer Helena's riddle: "What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles?"]
 * Helena: It's a herring.
 * Gryphon: But a herring isn't green.
 * Helena: You can paint it green.
 * Gryphon: But a herring doesn't hang on a wall.
 * Helena: You can nail it to a wall.
 * Gryphon: [through clenched teeth] But a herring doesn't WHISTLE!!
 * Helena: Oh come on, I just put that in to stop it from being too obvious.

Taglines

 * Enter A World Where Dreams Are Real.
 * An extraordinary dream quest to rescue a world out of balance.

Cast

 * Stephanie Leonidas - Helena Campbell / The Princess
 * Jason Barry - Valentine
 * Rob Brydon - Morris Campbell / the White Queen's majordomo
 * Gina McKee - Joanne Campbell / The Queen of Shadows / The Queen of Light