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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783235417
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783235410
Label: Dreamworks Video
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Dreamworks Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 01, 1999
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 35353
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 15, 1999
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Anyone who has seen and loved Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves should feel right at home in his off-beat psychological thriller In Dreams. A sexy, very adult take on "Little Red Riding Hood," Wolves unreeled as a series of surreal "fairy tales" interwoven within the heated dreams of a young girl verging on womanhood. Wolves' patron saints were Freud and Jung (as sifted through Jordan's wickedly fertile imagination), and the duo are very much aboard for In Dreams as well. Here's a movie that takes place entirely in dreamtime, where the dark, violent fantasies of Claire Cooper (Annette Bening)--wife, mother, and illustrator of children's books--play out unpoliced by superego, conscience, or society. On the face of it, Claire's a clairvoyant whose mind becomes more and more possessed by child-killer Vivian Thompson (Robert Downey Jr.). Cops and shrinks refuse to take her seriously until she loses her own daughter and much, much more. Tapping into weird images of her soulmate's childhood, when he was abused by a hateful mother in a house now submerged in a nearby reservoir, Claire comes closer and closer to her gender-shifting bad boy (and his latest victim). From start to finish, In Dreams dwells in hyperreality. Whether leeched of or drenched in color, slipping eerily through an underwater world, rushing madly toward catastrophe--every hallucinatory shot is saturated with menace. It's the kind of potent, unresolved menace that haunts your waking day after a particularly unsettling nightmare. Watch this gorgeous film as therapeutic (?) theater inside Claire's mind, where she and her murderous doppelganger act out a terrible Oedipal drama driven by sex and jealousy. Bening and Downey deliver superb, risky performances, and Darius Khondji's cinematography, with almost every frame punctuated by blood-reds, is sensuously dreamlike. In Dreams is one of those great, flawed films that reaches for more than it ultimately achieves. But what a welcome change from the dullness and shallowness of the formulaic sure things that dominate movie screens as the 20th century draws to a close. --Kathleen Murphy
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IN DREAMS is NOT a typical hollywood thriller. It is a shocker w/ so little light in the story that anyone looking for a "feel good" movie had better avoid it like a face-full of sulphuric acid! As for me, I love it! Annette Bening (American Beauty) is Claire, a woman who has become psychically linked w/ a serial murderer named Vivian Thompson, played by Robert Downey, jr. (Zodiac). The two are drawn together in fatalistic fashion, while Claire's mind disintegrates, and her family is obliterated. ... Read More
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A beautiful moving I remember from when I was litte. It's rare when a movie stays with you, especially one of such calibur as this one, and you were only five at the time. I immediately HAD to seek this movie out and after searching vigorously for the title and the actors within it, upon coming acorss it- nothing could stop me from buying it. I waited anxiously to recieve it in the mail and upon doing so instantly popped it in the DVD player, forgetting all other distractions.
I was not ... Read More
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I caught this movie on the LMN tv station so I don't know if they took anything out. It's typical of the movies they show on LMN.
The basic idea is pretty good. Someone who can invade another person's mind and control their dreams. But the invader can not only control Claire's dreams but also show her the past and the future.
The invader is someone who escaped from a mental institution. Claire ends up in the same hospital and then eventually relives exactly what that ... Read More
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I, quite frankly, adore Annette Bening as an actress. Bob Downey is quality too. This film, however, was/is a mess. It could have been so much better given the talent that was available, but it failed, in my opinion, simply because it was so erratic. Artistic license aside, the film was a jumble which detracted from the potential of the story-line.
A shame, because the acting was excellent. If only the composition had matched the effort of the actors
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What a twist on the psychic movies that were being made. This is a movie about a woman that has always tried to repress her "visions" through her whole life and comes to "an awakening" of her "gifts". What she does find out that she is "linked" to a killer that is killing children and her child is the next to be kidnapped. She does try to warn people of her "vision" but she has "no proof" of her "vision" other than herself seeing it and then she doesn't quite understand what she is seeing. This movie ... Read More
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