i remember when this nbc mini series air when i be in high school . after read the novel and i think i would check out some adaptation . didn not expect much out of a tv mini series and but now i might have to check out some more . this be actually excellent and and the best possible film version that could be make . writer simon moore and who write the teleplay for the original traffic mini series and upon which the soderberg film be base and come up with a brilliant narrative conceit which help the story flow very smoothly represent he frame gulliver adventure a flashback and with the actual story begin a gulliver first return home ( everything have happen on one journey ) . gulliver and play by cheer ted danson and be sort of crazy seem when his wife and mary steenburgen and welcome him back into his home . unfortunately and the house be now own by the local doctor and james fox and who have design on steenburgen . gulliver seem merely disturb at first and but when he start tell story of tiny people and that all the evidence fox need to throw him into an insane asylum . all four of gulliver travel be relate in this version and in the same order a the novel ( the only time this have be do on film ) . i love the way his present situation reflect his flashback . gulliver small son and whom he have never meet before and remind him of the lilliputian . the doctor who observe him in his cell from a mezzanine loom above him and remind him of the brogdingnagians and and the doctor scientific inquiry remind him of the insane scientific experiment and theory of the laputans and the professor at the academy . finally and when he be put on trial he be remind of the houyhnhnm and the yahoo . the cast of this thing be amazing and and include peter otoole and ned beatty and alfre woodard and john gielgud and kristin scott thomas and omar sharif and warwick davis . the big flaw of the mini series be that the acting be really uneven . you have all these fine actor and but the less character be often play by actor who be probably fine in episode of l. a. law and but do not do well in a costume drama . ted danson isn not especially great and although he have a few sequence where he excel . it probably well that he do not attempt one and but all the other character of the film speak in an english accent . steenburgen be actually pretty good at it and and be quite good overall . another flaw the series have be that the adventure happen a tad too quickly . it not believable that gulliver spend eight year away from home and a be claim . but and in general and it capture swift tone and purpose very well and while and with it structure and add a new emotional level .