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Dreamscape

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Selfish teen Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid) is coerced into joining a government project in which psychics like him are trained to enter others' dreams. He starts learning to use his abilities to do good, but before long, a new official, Bob Blair (Christopher Plummer), seizes control of the project. A writer (George Wendt) helps Alex uncover Blair's true motives, which involve assassination via dreams. Soon, only Alex and a beautiful scientist (Kate Capshaw) stand in the way of something terrible.
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Dreamscape mixes several genres -- horror, sci-fi, action -- and always maintains a sense of adventure and humor.

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Variety 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. May 30, 2007 Full Review Time Out This is as good a piece of solid, down-the-line schlock as anything to come along since Halloween III. Jan 26, 2006 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 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. Rated: 3/4 Oct 23, 2004 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy A typically exuberant fantasy flick from the ’80s. Rated: 3/4 May 8, 2023 Full Review Alan Jones Starburst An engaging if workmanlike paranoia fantasy. Aug 2, 2022 Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com ...too violent for kids, and too silly for adults... Rated: 3/5 Sep 23, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Gray R Fascinating and riveting. This one would be great done in a modern remake even though the special effects were dynamite. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/31/25 Full Review Audience Member I would never would want to be a psychic and want to go into dreams from people I work with. Haven't seen this since the 90s. Got to love the 80s Synthesizer score. Tubi has this listed as a horror movie but it's more of a suspense thriller with a little horror I guess. I do love me some Max Con Sydow. Definitely pushing the PG-13 rating. Kinda cool practical effects on certain scenes . Interesting concept of Dennis Quaid being psychic and going into people nightmares to help them sleep. It's a 5.3/10 just ok movie. Definitely the poster is so misleading this isn't a knock off Indiana Jones movie at all. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/04/24 Full Review Ari V Extra marks for some rather bold statements made here. Despite the somewhat schlocky exterior. An 'if you know, you know' type of thing. If you don't, this probably won't mean much to you. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/25/24 Full Review Steve D Nightmare on Elm Street as an action film. Not as good but fun. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/24/23 Full Review Jason D How do audiences give this a rotten score? So innovative for its time. Dreamscape walked so Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Inception could run! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/31/23 Full Review Yoosik Ethan O I grew up watching this on a VCR in the ‘80's. Very fun underrated sci fi thriller. Long before the Matrix, this film came up about entering a dream world, and if you die there, you die for real. The dream sequences are so 80's special effects and exciting, but few and far in between. But the rest of the film comes with a great story involving corrupt governments using this technology and Dennis Quaid fighting to expose it. Definitely worth watching for a fun 80's night if you've never seen it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Joseph Ruben

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Dennis Quaid

Alex Gardner

Kate Capshaw

Jane DeVries

Max von Sydow

Doctor Paul Novotny

Christopher Plummer

Bob Blair

Eddie Albert

The President

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Synopsis Selfish teen Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid) is coerced into joining a government project in which psychics like him are trained to enter others' dreams. He starts learning to use his abilities to do good, but before long, a new official, Bob Blair (Christopher Plummer), seizes control of the project. A writer (George Wendt) helps Alex uncover Blair's true motives, which involve assassination via dreams. Soon, only Alex and a beautiful scientist (Kate Capshaw) stand in the way of something terrible.
Director
Joseph Ruben
Producer
Bruce Cohn Curtis
Screenwriter
Joseph Ruben, David Loughery
Production Co
Bella Productions
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 21, 2016
Runtime
1h 35m
Sound Mix
Surround
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