Line #18 Film/ComeAway


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3	''Come Away'' is a 2020 fantasy-drama film directed by Brenda Chapman (''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'') in her live-action debut, and starring Creator/AngelinaJolie, Creator/DavidOyelowo and Creator/MichaelCaine.
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5	Set before the famous tales of how [[Literature/PeterPan Peter became Pan]] and [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice went to Wonderland]], siblings Peter and Alice try to help their parents (Oyelowo and Jolie) not fall into despair following the tragic death of their older brother, only to then be forced to choose between their darkening home or the world of imagination.
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7	It made its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival before being released digitally later that year.
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10	!!''Come Away'' includes examples of:
11	* TheAlcoholic: Rose [[spoiler: becomes this out of grief over David's death.]]
12	* AdaptedOut: Alice's older sister does not exist in this version.
13	* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: CJ settles the debt Jack owes him by crushing one of the latter's hands, making it useless for Jack and forcing it to be amputated. Peter later pays CJ back for it cutting off one of his hands in the middle of a sword fight.]]
14	* AndYouWereThere: Certain characters in the real world double as characters from Wonderland or Neverland in Alice and Peter's imaginations:
15	** Rose doubles as [[spoiler: the Queen of Hearts.]]
16	** Aunt Eleanor doubles as [[spoiler: the Red Queen.]]
17	** [[spoiler: CJ]] doubles as [[spoiler: Captain Hook]]
18	** David doubles [[spoiler: posthumously]] as [[spoiler: the voice of the White Rabbit.]]
19	* AntiEscapismAesop: Subverted; this movie actually makes a strong argument for fantasy as a means of coping with the pain and hardships of life.
20	* BorrowedCatchphrase: Peter [[spoiler: takes David's habit of crowing like a rooster for himself following the latter's death.]]
21	* CainAndAbel: Jack and [[spoiler: CJ]]. Rose and Eleanor are a milder version of this trope.
22	* CanonForeigner: David (Alice and Peter's older brother) and Aunt Eleanor (Alice, Peter and David's aunt on their mother's side).
23	* CompositeCharacter: Alice is also [[spoiler: ''Mrs. Darling'' in this version!]]
24	** Averted, however, with the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen, who are separate characters as in the original books.
25	* {{Crossover}}: For ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and ''Literature/PeterPan''.
26	* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Jack has a past problem with gambling and a less than happy history with his criminal brother CJ, both of which come back into play following David's death.]]
27	* DownTheRabbitHole: Alice makes her famous trip down the TropeNamer in the last act of the film.
28	* EvilUncle: [[spoiler: CJ to Alice and Peter.]]
29	* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: What Alice inevitably ends up doing to travel to Wonderland.
30	* ForegoneConclusion: Alice will travel to Wonderland and return, while Peter will travel to Neverland and stay there.
31	* FramingDevice: The story is framed as [[spoiler: the adult Alice/Mrs. Darling reading the story of her and Peter's childhood to her children Wendy, John and Michael.]]
32	* TheGamblingAddict: [[spoiler: Jack used to have this problem before marrying Rose, and falls back into it after David's death, causing him to once again fall into debt to his shady brother CJ.]]
33	* TheGhost: Aunt Eleanor's husband William is mentioned several times but never actually seen.
34	* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: How Alice sees both the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen.
35	* HookHand: Courtesy of Captain Hook/[[spoiler: CJ]], as always.
36	* IChooseToStay: Peter ends up choosing his new life in Neverland over his life in the real world.
37	* ImagineSpot: A good deal of the movie's fantasy elements are initially just the imaginations of Alice, Peter and David being shown for the audience onscreen.
38	* IRejectYourReality: Alice [[spoiler: refuses to accept that David is really dead, insisting instead that he's merely "disappeared". It takes seeing a photo of David's corpse lying in its coffin for her to admit the truth.]]
39	* InnocenceLost: The movie is about Peter and Alice fighting to ''not'' lose their innocence after something so tragic as [[spoiler:the death of their brother]]. The children bounce between coping mechanisms of staying in their imaginary world forever or trying to grow up quicker. By the end, [[spoiler:neither loses their innocence completely, although Alice does grow into a lady and mother.]]
40	* LivingToys: [[spoiler: The White Rabbit is one of Alice's stuffed toys who comes to life at the climax of the film.]]
41	* TheMadHatter: The TropeNamer (or at least the inspiration for him) appears in the film.
42	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It becomes increasingly uncertain as the movie continues if the increasing fantasy elements are real or all just in Alice and Peter's imaginations.
43	* MrImagination: Alice, Peter and David all have very vivid imaginations and what they're seeing in their heads is often shown onscreen.
44	* OffWithHisHead: Uttered (as always) by the Queen of Hearts.
45	* PinkElephants: Alice drinks from her mother's forbidden vial of alcohol and hallucinates that it's the famous "Drink Me" bottle that makes her shrink to a tiny size.
46	* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler: David's]] death at the end of the film's first act is what sets everything that follows in motion.
47	* {{Prequel}}: The film depicts versions of Peter Pan and Alice before the stories they originate from.
48	* TheProudElite: Aunt Eleanor.
49	* RaceLift:
50	** Peter and Alice are traditionally Caucasian, but here are presumably biracial with a black father and white mother.
51	** The Mad Hatter is black in this version, as is Captain Hook.
52	* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
53	** Peter and Alice are brother and sister, being from different, unconnected source materials that didn't connect prior.
54	** [[spoiler: Wendy, John and Michael Darling are Peter's niece and nephews in this version, since Alice is also Mrs. Darling.]]
55	** [[spoiler: The Mad Hatter and Captain Hook are Jack's father and brother respectively, thus making them Alice and Peter's grandfather and uncle and Wendy, John, Michael's great-grandfather and great-uncle.]]
56	* ScaryBlackMan: [[spoiler: CJ/Captain Hook.]]
57	* ScatterbrainedSenior: The "Hatter" at the Pawnshop is clearly off his rocker, prancing around, talking about nonsense. [[spoiler:When he meets his son Jack again, he doesn't even seem to know it's been years since they saw each other last.]]
58	* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: David is struck by a bolt of lightning right after having accidentally fallen into the river. He's instantly fried to death by it.]]
59	* TaxidermyTerror: [[spoiler: The Crocodile is a stuffed and mounted figure on a wall of the Hatter's pawnshop who comes alive at the climax to eat CJ's hand and pocket watch.]]
60	* TimeShiftedActor: Alice is played by Keira Chansa as a child and Creator/GuguMbathaRaw as an adult.

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