In Your Dreams

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In Your Dreams

PG

2025

1h 30m

Adventure

Fantasy

Animation

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In Your Dreams is a comedy adventure about Stevie and her brother Elliot who journey into the absurd landscape of their own dreams. If the siblings can withstand a snarky stuffed giraffe, zombie breakfast foods, and the queen of nightmares, the Sandman will grant them their ultimate dream come true... the perfect family.

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Critics Consensus

Harkening back to other classic animated adventures, In Your Dreams adds imaginative flourishes to a familiar framework and delivers big-hearted family entertainment.

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Nell Minow

RogerEbert.com

Nov 14

3.5/4

It’s a wise and touching story about the challenges of family and of change.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

Nov 13

3/4

Director/co-screenwriter Alex Woo and co-director/co-screenwriter Erik Benson don’t break new ground, but do know how to tell an appealing, family-friendly story.

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

Nov 10

“In Your Dreams” is built around great swirling mounds of imagistic energy, yet it feels secondhand at its core.

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Clotilde Chinnici

Loud and Clear Reviews

Dec 21

3.5/5

With its positive message of embracing adversity rather than shying away from it, the movie is perfectly suited for kids who make up the primary audience of this film.

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Paul Salfen

AMFM Magazine

Dec 12

8.5/10

The new fun characters like Baloney Tony and relatable leads going through real issues makes for the perfect formula that shows that projects full of warmth and heart go a long way – especially in a time like this when we need it most.

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Marlon Wallace

The M Report (WBOC.com)

Dec 10

I haven't seen every animated film in 2025, but this one stands out as one of the best. Current predictions have this film not getting nominated at the 98th Academy Awards, but in my estimation it should.

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Nov 11

Lots of heart and laughs. Wonderful story, looks beautiful, great songs.

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Liam D

@Mediawatcher2003 Jan 1

Even though it does suffer a bit from an softer convulsion (which makes sense considering it’s target audience) but it’s an solid film with an creative and heartfelt story with pretty good animation

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Lena W

Dec 30

I love the movie. There was a scene where a serial guy said there’s a dad there’s a dead girl in the cereal it was so funny and when the girl licked the sausage dog, and then he walked and said weird that’s a weird girl that made me crack up well something along that lines. I wish it was longer and I think they should make a part two in your dreams 2 I wish it was longer. The end was great. They moving was great and when Elliot saved her, that was awesome and the turtle machine and the dreams and when baloney Tony was missing, and he found it in the dream and then found it in real life and refuse to go to sleep and one in that one dream were baloney. Tony smelled like flowers or violets baloney, Tony is supposed to smell like baloney. I think honestly the movie was the second best movie I ever watched. It was a great movie, but I wish it was longer and overall there was a great movie watch it yourself. But why don’t people not like it? I mean, they can have opinions, watch itIrecommend

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Avery L

@mistahbombastik Dec 27

Beautiful movie about what a REAL family looks like

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Richard H

@thedarksoul Dec 26

Wonderful and creative

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Yash B

@yashbansal Dec 22

"In Your Dreams" is a sweet and harmless animated movie from Netflix. I think the movie has a good message and is something kids will absolutely eat up. I do feel that there is enough for adults to enjoy it too, but it definitely feels like a movie that may resonate more deeply with younger audiences, with its whimsical nature. Still, there is a scene in here that really felt emotionally resonant, and I enjoyed the journey the movie took me on. I do feel like a lot of the rules of the world it creates are a bit glossed over and could have been explained a bit better, but my imagination filled in any of those gaps. Overall, it is a very light and sweet movie that I think is one of the better animated outings of 2025.

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Stevie

Elias Janssen

Elliot

Craig Robinson

Baloney Tony

Simu Liu

Dad

Cristin Milioti

Mom

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Synopsis

In Your Dreams is a comedy adventure about Stevie and her brother Elliot who journey into the absurd landscape of their own dreams. If the siblings can withstand a snarky stuffed giraffe, zombie breakfast foods, and the queen of nightmares, the Sandman will grant them their ultimate dream come true... the perfect family.

Director: Alex Woo
Producer: Timothy Hahn, Gregg Taylor
Screenwriter: Erik Benson, Alex Woo
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Domain Entertainment (II), Kuku Studios, Dave Enterprises, Netflix Animation, Intromagine Pictures
Rating: PG (Thematic Content|Action/Peril|Some Rude Humor|Scary Images)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 7, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 14, 2025
Runtime: 1h 30m

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