Dream Scenario

Name: Dream Scenario
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Released: November 10, 2023
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 74
Cast: David Klein, Dylan Baker, Dylan Gelula, Julianne Nicholson, Liz Adjei

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A24 | Release Date: November 10, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: David Klein, Dylan Baker, Dylan Gelula, Julianne Nicholson, Liz Adjei, Maev Beaty, Michael Cera, Nicolas Cage, Sofia Banzhaf, Tim Meadows

Summary: Hapless family man Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.

Director: Kristoffer Borgli

Genre(s): Horror, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Mick LaSalle

Nov 8, 2023

The film starts off akin to a tongue-in-cheek “Twilight Zone” episode, then becomes a meditation on fame before transforming into a scathing satire of several things at once: Gen Z, cancel culture, and even the people who complain about cancel culture. Written and directed by Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli, it’s bleak and funny and provides Cage with his most satisfying role since 1997’s “Face/Off.” Read full review

Richard Roeper

Nov 14, 2023

Writer-director-editor Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario has one of the most ingenious setups of any movie of the 2020s and, even more remarkably, delivers on that premise for at least three-quarters of the story, before it falls just short of greatness in a final sequence of events that feels just slightly, slightly underwhelming. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Nov 10, 2023

Dream Scenario is a cousin to Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich and Richard Linklater’s Waking Life, and very enjoyable; it is at once strangely light-hearted and heavy with menace. Read full review

Mark Hanson

Sep 12, 2023

Kristoffer Borgli’s film presents a perfectly absurdist setup that allows Nicolas Cage to flex his singular acting muscles in increasingly hilarious directions. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Nov 10, 2023

Dream Scenario gets many cringing laughs, and yet its humor—easy shots at vapid capitalist-pawn influencers, cancel culture, Tucker Carlson, and other culture wars Mad Libs—is mostly about the cheap comic thrill of getting the reference. Read full review

David Fear

Sep 11, 2023

Part horror movie and part sideways swipe at cancel culture and social pariahdom, Dream Scenario is the sort of high-concept, surreal comedy that Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Charlie Kaufman used to do on the regular — think Eternal Nicshine of the Spotless Cage. Read full review

Calan Panchoo

Sep 13, 2023

Borgli’s feature is just another somewhat edgy movie that has nothing to say. Read full review

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