In Dreams
by Neil Jordan
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Actor: Aidan Quinn, Annette Bening, Katie Sagona, Paul Guilfoyle, Robert Downey Jr.Director: Neil Jordan
Cinematographer: Darius Khondji
Writer: Neil Jordan
Producer: Charles Burke
Producer: Redmond Morris
Producer: Stephen Woolley
Writer: Bari Wood
Writer: Bruce Robinson
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 100 minutes
Release Date: 2000-08-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Dreamworks
Studio: Dreamworks
VHS Movie Reviews of In Dreams
Movie Review: Not an upper.
Summary: 4 Stars
I really liked this movie. Annette Bening was so good. I thought is was scary, suspenseful, interesting and also sad. Movie Review: Six Feet Under The Apple Tree...
Summary: 5 Stars
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. Sound like fun? I first saw this gruesome little chiller back in '99. I never forgot it. It is a psychic odyssey through almost total darkness. Claire is taken through inner hell, culminating in a final? that brought me the same icy satisfaction as the ending of CANDYMAN. Director, Neil Jordan (The Company Of Wolves) brings this twisted faerie tale into being w/ no holds barred. In this movie, nothing is sacred and no one is safe! Highly recommended... Movie Review: A past time revisited
Summary: 5 Stars
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 dissapointed. I remember the scenes that brought me to tears, the scenes that made me stare on until my eyes waterd from not blinking enough. Everything was just as I vaguely remembered it to be, the acting were on key, the gruesome detail of horrific psychopathic nature, the events that unfolded, the connection between killer and victim by circumstance. It was insanely gratifying. A beautiful, wondrous movie that I really push for everyone to see. Robert Downey Jr. is one of those rare actors in those world that plays his parts to the maximum of his potential.
I was and still am, in love with this movie.
Movie Review: Dreary And Morbid
Summary: 3 Stars
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 guy did 25 years earlier.
This was all caused by that bad guy so he could eventually meet up with Claire and start a new family since his original family life wasn't that great.
I guess how much you will enjoy this movie depends on how much you are willing to let your imagination run wild and ignore the utter impossibility that something like this could ever happen. Since we know it could never happen the only thing left to enjoy is the story and the acting.
The movie has an atmosphere of dreariness and despair. It seems like the weather is overcast every day. Many of the scenes are set in an insane asylum and an old cider mill which somehow still has apples in it although it seems to have been shut down for many years.
The ending is at least consistent with the rest of the morbid story.
Jeff Marzano
Movie Review: What a mess
Summary: 2 Stars
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
Summary of In Dreams
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 MurphyDrama Video
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