In Dreams (1999)

Release date: 1999-01-15
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Neil Jordan
Production Co: Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Rating: 5.5/10
Length: 1h 40min

Storyline

The housewife Claire Cooper is married to the pilot Paul Cooper and their little daughter Rebecca is their pride and joy. When a stranger kidnaps a girl, Claire dreams about the man but Detective Jack Kay ignores her concerns. But when Rebecca disappears during a school play, Claire learns that her visions were actually premonitions and she is connected to the killer through her dreams. She has a nervous breakdown and tries to commit suicide. Her psychologist Dr. Silverman sends her to a mental institution and soon she finds that her husband will be the next victim of the serial-killer. Further, the serial-killer was interned in the same cell in the hospital where she is. Will Claire be able to save Paul?

Plot Keywords

based on novel, helicopter, doctor, red, injection, murder, syringe, hotel, apple, clairvoyant, psychiatric hospital, nightmare, dream, serial killer, mental institution, school play, two word title, cigarette smoking, bound and gagged, underwater scene

Short Review

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.