Dreamscape

Name: Dreamscape
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror
Released: August 17, 1984
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Cory 'Bumper' Yothers, David Patrick Kelly, Dennis Quaid, Eddie Albert

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: August 17, 1984 | R

Starring: Christopher Plummer, Cory 'Bumper' Yothers, David Patrick Kelly, Dennis Quaid, Eddie Albert, George Wendt, Kate Capshaw, Larry Gelman, Max von Sydow, Redmond Gleeson

Summary: A young psychic on the run from himself is recruited by a government agency experimenting with the use of the dream-sharing technology and is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of the U.S. president.

Director: Joseph Ruben

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 99 min

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Empire Mark Dinning

The sometimes dark sci-fi thriller tone is punctured nicely by Quaid's one-liners, and Capshaw is on good form. Very, very '80s, but lots of fun too. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Tight, clever thriller.

Roger Ebert

It's a political conspiracy thriller, a science fiction adventure, and sort of a love story. 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. Read full review

Janet Maslin

An enjoyably half-baked movie, and if it were any less farfetched it would be less fun. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

As a night out this is as good a piece of solid, down-the-line schlock as anything to come along since Halloween III. Read full review

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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. Read full review

Bill Cosford

In their defense, it must be said that Dennis Quaid (as the chief dreamer) and Kate Capshaw (back again, this time in the time-honored woman's role of "assistant scientist") make an appealing couple. The presence of Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer is more problematic; someone paid these people a lot of money to sleepwalk. [16 Aug 1984, p.B6]

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