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In Dreams (1999)

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22

Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 49
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 38

Some interesting visuals, but the movie is as confusing as a dream.

33

Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 8

Some interesting visuals, but the movie is as confusing as a dream.

audience

41

liked it
Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 8,319

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Movie Info

Claire Cooper (Annette Bening), has been having psychic visions all of her life, though she's never been clear of what they mean. Now an adult, she lives an idyllic, small-town life in a Massachusetts farmhouse with her airline-pilot husband Paul (Aidan Quinn) and her young daughter Rebecca (Katie Sagona), while Claire illustrates children's books. A psychopath (Robert Downey Jr.) has been kidnapping young girls in their area, and one is currently missing. Claire has a recurring dream about the

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Mystery & Suspense, Horror

Bruce Robinson, Neil Jordan

Jun 1, 1999

Dreamworks

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All Critics (72) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (38) | DVD (6)

Ambitious but ultimately incoherent and frustrating tale that may be too cerebral for the horror genre crowds and too literal-minded for the genre's more intelligent viewers; lush visual style compensates only up to a point.

October 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety
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The silliest thriller in many a moon!

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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A memorably creepy and lyrical shocker full of spine-chilling scenes and moments!

January 1, 2000
Chicago Tribune
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In dreams, this film would be a chilling exercise in psychological horror; in reality, it's a fascinating folly.

May 3, 2009 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
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Jordan drops his common sense so consistently here that much of In Dreams is fascinating.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
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Someday, Annette Bening is going to star in a movie that's as interesting and powerful as she can be as an actress.

July 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

Pretty much falls into the bin with the many other serial killer movies made recently.

March 27, 2003 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

Overall, a mediocre film with a few adequately chilling moments.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online
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Audience Reviews for In Dreams

A Rollercoaster ride into the madness and a artistic highpoint in Neil Jordan's remarkable career. In Dreams is easily his most overlooked film and should got wider release back in 1998. Instead it went straight to dvd in many countries and therefore wasn't seen by that many.
There are so many things here to praise. First of all there has never been a film, before or after this one, which has had this kind of strange magical atmosphere mixed into autumnal colours and mood. In the hands of Jordan, this film is more like a twisted fairytale with moments of pure horror than just a supernatural thriller.
Secondly Annette Bening's performance is one of the greatest works in any film that i have ever seen. She goes from happy housewife to grieving mother and there to a possessed woman who loses her sanity while she is trying to make sense of her distubing visions and dreams that haunts her. Her sadness, rage and pain is so convincing that it is easy to identify to her emotions. There is a moment where she is searching for her lost child with police in the cold and dark forest and that scene is absolutely heartbreaking. She seems not only to act her role, she is living it.
Third and the last thing i must mention is the music by Elliot Goldenthal that is a crucial element here for a creating the unique mood that this film has. His music is the topping of this great film. It perfectly captures all the emotions that this film goes through. We can sense the despair, sadness, horror, pain and grief from his work here. He wisely hired Cocteau Twins's Elizabeth Fraser to add ethereal beauty in the soundtrack and it was a move that paid off. Goldenthal's score for In Dreams will always be one of the greatest examples of mixing traditional score with more experimental styles.
Those were only three remarkable things that i mentioned and the list is a long one. I advise you to see this underrated and forgotten masterpiece. It is a film like late summer day's dream. Magical, haunting and hypnotic. In Dreams is a true gem.
September 8, 2009
emilkakko

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Frustrating initially as Bening's character virtually makes every dumb bad movie choice (i.e. "...don't go outside/upstairs/downstairs ALONE!") a character can make, the work eventually settles into a double horror piece with strange and moody locales and Downey's enjoyable Lector pastiche.
May 22, 2011
UniversalDreamer

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