When the nightmare grabs Flip, Nemo uses her wish to force Flip to wake up. Philip arranges a rescue boat and heads toward the lighthouse, terrified by the storm. Flip saves her from the kraken nightmare as in the real world, she falls into the water, unconscious. In the Sea of Nightmares, she acquires a wishing pearl. She hits her head and passes out in the boat, sending her back to Slumberland. Nemo runs away from home and sails through a storm back to the lighthouse. This event leads to an argument between her and Philip. Arya, who calls Philip for an intervention. Nemo is awakened by school guidance counselor Ms. At the Sea of Nightmares, she reveals to him who he really is the truth of his boring real life upsets him and Flip decides never to wake up. Nemo returns to Slumberland to rescue Flip.

As Flip has not woken up, Philip has lost that part of his personality and become Flip's opposite: docile and unadventurous. Nemo realizes that Flip is Philip's dream alter ego. In the real world, Philip shows Nemo an old videotape of him and Peter playing together as children. Flip is later imprisoned by Agent Green of the Bureau of Subconscious Activities (BoSA) for intruding on people's dreams. They are attacked by Nemo's nightmare, a cloud of smoke resembling a kraken. He uses the map as a guide through various people's dreams to get to the Sea of Nightmares, where the pearls are. Nemo learns that Flip has refused to wake up for so long he no longer remembers who he is in the real world. Flip begrudgingly allows her to join him for the pearls so she can wish her father into her dreams. Nemo finds the map in the waking world and takes it back to Slumberland by sleeping through classes. A stubborn and unscrupulous outlaw, Flip is looking for a map that will lead him to magical wish-granting pearls. Here, she meets Flip, learning that he is real and not simply a character her father made up. In reality, she is still asleep and in Slumberland, the world between dreams. One night, she is awakened when her stuffed pig (Pig) comes to life. Nemo moves to the city with Peter and the two find it difficult to adjust to each other. In contrast to his brother Peter, Philip, a doorknob salesman, is a boring man who leads a lonely, monotonous life. One night during a storm, Peter heads out to help a distressed boat and dies at sea, leaving Nemo an orphan. Peter tells her wild bedtime stories about his adventures with Flip, his partner from the old days when they were outlaws. Nemo is a young girl who lives in a lighthouse with her widowed father Peter, a lighthouse keeper.

It received generally mixed reviews from critics. Slumberland was released on November 18, 2022, by Netflix. It tells the story of a young girl who goes to live with her uncle after her father is lost at sea and enters Slumberland where she befriends a renegade character who is involved in a plot to get to the Sea of Nightmares and obtain a special pearl that may have the power to reunite her with her father. Based on the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay, the film stars Jason Momoa, Chris O'Dowd, Kyle Chandler, Weruche Opia, and introducing Marlow Barkley in her film debut as Nemo. Slumberland is a 2022 American fantasy adventure film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by David Guion and Michael Handelman.

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