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In Dreams

In Dreams

  • Status: Released
  • 15-01-1999
  • Runtime: 100 min
  • Score: 5.439
  • Vote count: 189

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

Annette Bening

Claire Cooper

Aidan Quinn

Paul Cooper

Stephen Rea

Doctor Silverman

Robert Downey Jr.

Vivian Thompson

Paul Guilfoyle

Detective Jack Kay

Dennis Boutsikaris

Doctor Stevens

Krystal Benn

Ruby

Lonnie Farmer

Nurse Rosco

Margo Martindale

Nurse Floyd

Pamela Payton-Wright

Ethel

Katie Sagona

Rebecca Cooper

Geoffrey Wigdor

Vivian Thompson - As Teenager

Prudence Wright Holmes

Mary

Kathleen Langlois

Snow White

Jennifer Berry

Hunter

Emma J. Brown

Dwarf

Jennifer Dragon

Dwarf

Samantha Kelly

Dwarf

Jennifer Caine Natenshon

Dwarf

Bethany M. Paquin

Dwarf

Erica Sullivan

Dwarf

Amelia Claire Novotny

Prince

Kristin Sroka

Wicked Stepmother

Robert E. Walsh

Man at School Play

Denise Cormier

Woman at School Play

John Fiore

Policeman

Ken Cheeseman

Paramedic

Devon Cole Borisoff

Vivian Thompson - As Boy

June Lewin

Kindly Nurse

Dorothy Dwyer

Foster Mother

Wally Dunn

Walter

Eric Roemele

Security Man - 1970's

Dossy Peabody

Vivian's Mother

John Michael Vaughn

Helicopter Pilot

Brian Goodman

Policeman in Squad Car

Michael Cavanaugh

Judge (voice)

Pete

Dobie

Robert Harrell

Police Officer (uncredited)

Alan Francis Sullivan

Police Officer (uncredited)

Dee Nelson

Teacher (uncredited)

Mylan Janoplis

Diver (uncredited)

Eric Bruno Borgman

Man Trapped in Car (uncredited)

John Chard

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