Strawberry Mansion

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Strawberry Mansion

2022

1h 31m

Fantasy

Adventure

Animation

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In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own-they're infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble (Kentucker Audley) arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora (Penny Fuller), a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state with VHS tapes and homemade headgear. As Preble works his way through Bella's archive of the unconscious, he begins to fall in love with visions of her younger self (Grace Glowicki). But all is not well in dreamland as dangerous family secrets and a rogue's gallery of blue demons and fried chicken pitchmen threaten to set the lovers' paradise ablaze. Can Preble and Bella escape from the modern, monetized dreamscape and find refuge in Strawberry Mansion?

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Critics Consensus

Strawberry Mansion's sci-fi premise provides cover for a film whose dream logic and surreal visuals are underscored by quietly poignant themes.

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Charles Bramesco

Little White Lies

Sep 22, 2022

4/5

More than the sum of its deadpan quirks.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

Sep 13, 2022

4/5

Beneath the crazy candy-coloured palette, there is actually some real human warmth in the love story, and the acting ensemble features some great comic performers in supporting roles...

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Max Maller

Chicago Reader

Feb 23, 2022

Some bolder flights of fancy even gesture at fluffy 80s fantasy for kids like The NeverEnding Story, but always in an endearingly handmade way, which the bedroom grandeur of Dan Deacon’s score offsets at key moments.

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Jessica Gonzales

Geek Vibes Nation

Jul 17, 2025

4/5

It is like a new telling of The Odyssey wrapped in a futuristic fairytale and a dazzling feast for the senses that reminds us if we lose our dreams, we just might lose who we are. This one is not to be missed.

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Rosalie Kicks

MovieJawn

Jun 19, 2024

3/4

This a magical world in which metaphysical love exists and I am here for it. I absolutely loved all the kookiness and quirks.

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Amy Smith

InSession Film

Mar 1, 2024

C+

This film had so much potential and so much passion put behind it from Audley and Birney. It is such a shame that for every good aspect of this film that I can say about the first hour, the last act just took that all away...

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Karabou

Mar 18, 2022

SM was a sweet quirky film reminiscent of Beetlejuice & Big Fish! Dreamy, strange & delightful. Cozy date film

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Alice S

Mar 7, 2022

A magical mystery tour that is totally mind-blowing. I loved it.

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George B

Feb 21, 2022

Very quirky weirdness. Hard to intellectualize snd summsrize briefly. You just need to experience it. Very imaginative imagery and observations about the human mind. Might not be profound, but it is amusing.

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Jonathan K

@aFIREintheattic Sep 27, 2026

So strange, but surprisingly cohesive and lucid considering it's a very weird, trippy movie about dream states. If I dreamed like that I wouldn't want to wake up, even for as frightening and Kafkaesque as those dreams were. Quite a ride. The underlying plot is maybe not the most original, but still interesting enough, and a decent spine for the movie to turn on. It's not some throwaway plot for the sake of making a trippy fantasy sci-fi-like movie, which can often be the case -- essentially just a weak narrative vehicle to get to the weird gimmick. But here the inventive, fantastical dream story is built on a decent plot of its own. The production value is low, and while some of that was probably aesthetic driven, I'm sure budget played a part. Some of the effects, both practical and "special", are kind of cute in their kitschiness; it's perhaps part of the charm. But others are slightly distracting. Generally I take it to be part of the vibe and vintage... [continued on letterboxd]

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Brenda J

@RT04242924 Aug 29, 2026

The begging was good and that’s about it. It lacked action, character, and the story was confusing. Maybe this one is for the drama club.

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Evan C

@InsanityOfPigs Oct 13, 2025

If you like weird quirky films, this might be for you. It’s very weird. Very quirk. Like I said, you might need to be into super weird films to like this. I like them, but this one was too weird and quirky for me. I stuck it out. It wasn’t bad, but I wouldn’t watch it again

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Synopsis

In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own-they're infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble (Kentucker Audley) arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora (Penny Fuller), a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state with VHS tapes and homemade headgear. As Preble works his way through Bella's archive of the unconscious, he begins to fall in love with visions of her younger self (Grace Glowicki). But all is not well in dreamland as dangerous family secrets and a rogue's gallery of blue demons and fried chicken pitchmen threaten to set the lovers' paradise ablaze. Can Preble and Bella escape from the modern, monetized dreamscape and find refuge in Strawberry Mansion?

Director: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney, Albert Birney
Producer: Emma Hannaway, Matisse Rifai, Taylor Shung, Sarah Winshall
Screenwriter: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney, Albert Birney
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Ley Line Entertainment, Kaleidoscope Entertainment, UnLTD Productions, Salem Street Entertainment, Cartuna
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 18, 2022, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $96.2K
Runtime: 1h 31m

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