Fresh
Most movies that try to crowd so much into an hour and a half end up looking like a shopping list, but Dreamscape works, maybe because it has a sense of humor.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Dreamscape
Close your eyes and the adventure begins.
1984 · 1h 39m · PG-13
Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Joseph Ruben
Overview
In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.
Director and cast
- Joseph Ruben Director
- Dennis Quaid as Alex Gardner
- Max von Sydow as Doctor Paul Novotny
- Christopher Plummer as Bob Blair
- Eddie Albert as The President
- Kate Capshaw as Jane DeVries
- David Patrick Kelly as Tommy Ray Glatman
- George Wendt as Charlie Prince
- Larry Gelman as Mr. Webber
- Cory 'Bumper' Yothers as Buddy
- Redmond Gleeson Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
78%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Mostly maladroit, without the kind of high gloss or confidence that might help carry its audience along.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
Film [from a screen story by David Loughery] centers on 'dreamlinking', the psychic projection of one person's consciousness into a sleeping person's subconscious, or his dreams. If that sounds far-fetched, it is.
Variety
Fresh
This is as good a piece of solid, down-the-line schlock as anything to come along since Halloween III.
Time Out
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