In Dreams

1/15/19991h 40m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ You don't have to sleep to dream ~

Overview:

A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.

Director:

Neil Jordan

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$30,000,000.00

Revenue:

$12,017,369.00

Key words:

dreams
based on novel or book
suicide attempt
kidnapping
murder
serial killer

Cast

Annette Bening

~ as ~

Claire Cooper

Aidan Quinn

~ as ~

Paul Cooper

Stephen Rea

~ as ~

Doctor Silverman

Robert Downey Jr.

~ as ~

Vivian Thompson

Paul Guilfoyle

~ as ~

Detective Jack Kay

Dennis Boutsikaris

~ as ~

Doctor Stevens

Krystal Benn

~ as ~

Ruby

Lonnie Farmer

~ as ~

Nurse Rosco

Margo Martindale

~ as ~

Nurse Floyd

Pamela Payton-Wright

~ as ~

Ethel

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Reviews (1)

John Chard
Written 9 year(s) ago
5
Stylistic Dirge.

In Dreams is directed by Neil Jordan and adapted to screenplay by Jordan and Bruce Robinson from the Bari Wood novel. It stars Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn, Robert Downey Jr.and Paul Guilfoyle. Music is by Elliot Goldenthal and cinematography by Darius Khondji.

In this contrived thriller, Bening is a grief stricken housewife who finds her thoughts in sync with a serial killer (a ridiculously miscast Downey Jr.). Neil Jordan is a great director, but he's also a very frustrating one, case in point In Dreams. The visuals are outstanding here as Jordan and Khondji paint a nightmarish world, but the flashbacks are unfocused and any sense of suspense or plot progression is lost in a whirl of stylised indulgence. Strip away the style and you find a formulaic serial killer picture hiding behind arty farty stubbornness. Bening's performance deserves a better movie, and it is with her, and the visual smarts, that the pic remains of interest till its resolution. 5/10