
With her, Alice goes forward into the fifth row by crossing a stream in a rowing boat, but the Queen is then turned into the Sheep.Īlice enters the sixth row of the chess board by crossing another stream and meets Humpty Dumpty ( Desmond Barrit) on his unbirthday, who teaches Alice about portmanteau words before falling off his wall. The White Queen ( Penelope Wilton) arrives and shows her powers of precognition.

The brothers get ready to fight but run away, frightened by a giant crow. Next she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee ( Gary Olsen and Marc Warren), who recite the poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter", with the Red King ( Michael Medwin) asleep under a tree. In crossing the wood where things have no names, she forgets her own name, but it comes back on the other side. In a wood, the Gnat ( Steve Coogan) teaches her about the looking-glass insects. Alice becomes one of the White Queen 's pawns, and gets into a train that takes her directly to the fourth row. She will make Alice a queen if she can get as far as the eighth row.
There, she meets the Red Queen from the chess board ( Sian Phillips), who shows her that the landscape is laid out like a gigantic chessboard. She goes out into a garden with talking flowers.

Īlice finds a book containing " Jabberwocky", in mirror writing, and sees chess pieces coming to life. The mother then finds herself travelling through the bedroom mirror into Looking-Glass Land and becoming Alice, but remains an adult. The film opens with a mother ( Kate Beckinsale) reading Through the Looking Glass to her daughter Alice (Charlotte Curley). Alice through the Looking Glass is a 1998 British fantasy television film, based on Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass, and starring Kate Beckinsale.
