Annette Bening

Aidan Quinn

Stephen Rea

Robert Downey Jr.

Paul Guilfoyle

Dennis Boutsikaris

Krystal Benn

Lonnie Farmer

Margo Martindale

Pamela Payton-Wright

Katie Sagona

Geoffrey Wigdor

Prudence Wright Holmes

Kathleen Langlois

Jennifer Berry

Emma J. Brown

Jennifer Dragon

Samantha Kelly

Jennifer Caine Natenshon

Bethany M. Paquin

Erica Sullivan

Amelia Claire Novotny

Kristin Sroka

Robert E. Walsh

Denise Cormier

John Fiore

Ken Cheeseman

Devon Cole Borisoff

June Lewin

Dorothy Dwyer

Wally Dunn

Eric Roemele

Dossy Peabody

John Michael Vaughn

Brian Goodman

Michael Cavanaugh

Pete

Robert Harrell

Alan Francis Sullivan

Dee Nelson

Mylan Janoplis

Eric Bruno Borgman

Bari Wood

Neil Jordan

Bruce Robinson

Jery Hewitt

Bill Anagnos

Dana Bertolette

Richard L. Blackwell

Robin Bonaccorsi

Peter Bucossi

Eliza Coleman

Norman Douglass

Danny Downey

Andrew Dupin

Peter Epstein

Roy Farfel

Gene Harrison

Don Hewitt Sr.

Donald J. Hewitt Jr.

Jennifer Lamb

David Paul Lord

Kurt D. Lott

Steve Mack

John P. 'Jack' McLaughlin

Charles Page

Janet Paparazzo

Susan Purkhiser

Jodi Michelle Pynn

Michael Russo

Keith Siglinger

Nan Bernstein Freed

Patrick Clayton

Christo Morse

Carl Sprague

Alec Hirschfeld

Josh Blakeslee

Jerry Holway

François Duhamel

Robin Squibb

Louis Sabat

Jerry DeBlau

Peter Girolami

Richie Ford

Chris Centrella

Dean M. King

Tony Campenni

Tim Driscoll

David Larue

David Gulick

Edward 'Tantar' LeViseur

Kris Moran

Yves De Bono

Ron Colucci

Phil H. Fravel

David Hill

Dawn Y. Line

Suzanne McCabe

Debbie Holbrook

Winsome G. McKoy

Shoshana Rubin

Lori Hicks

Matiki Anoff

Felice Diamond

Aaron F. Quarles

Jacqueline Payne

Judy Richter

Nicole Furia

Maria DeVane

Laura Berning

Anya Colloff

Carolyn Pickman

Marty Keener Cherrix

Guy Adan

George Jenson

Sarah Jackson Burt

James V. Kent

Jeffrey DeBell

Theodore Suchecki

Anthony Dunne

John Grimolizzi

Robert Martini

Tricia Perrott

Leslie Shatz

Philip Alton

Sara Hegarty

Jenny Lee Wright

Ruth Sullivan

Paul Massey

Robert Elhai

Elliot Goldenthal

Jonathan Sheffer

Curtis Roush

Paul Ensby

Mike Roberts

Bill Coe

Marc Hirschfeld

Adam Gilmore

Matthew Brookman

Kenneth Dodd

Thomas C. Nisbet

Mystery

Thriller

Horror

In Dreams

DreamWorks Pictures

Amblin Entertainment

Company of Wolves

Ireland

United Kingdom

United States of America

Stylistic Dirge.

In Dreams is directed by Neil Jordan and adapted to screenplay by Jordan and Bruce Robinson from the Bari Wood novel. It stars Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn, Robert Downey Jr.and Paul Guilfoyle. Music is by Elliot Goldenthal and cinematography by Darius Khondji.

In this contrived thriller, Bening is a grief stricken housewife who finds her thoughts in sync with a serial killer (a ridiculously miscast Downey Jr.). Neil Jordan is a great director, but he's also a very frustrating one, case in point In Dreams. The visuals are outstanding here as Jordan and Khondji paint a nightmarish world, but the flashbacks are unfocused and any sense of suspense or plot progression is lost in a whirl of stylised indulgence. Strip away the style and you find a formulaic serial killer picture hiding behind arty farty stubbornness. Bening's performance deserves a better movie, and it is with her, and the visual smarts, that the pic remains of interest till its resolution. 5/10

English

Theatrical Trailer