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

Bruce Robinson

Neil Jordan

Dana Bertolette

Jery Hewitt

Bill Anagnos

Richard L. Blackwell

Gene Harrison

Don Hewitt Sr.

Robin Bonaccorsi

Peter Bucossi

Danny Downey

Donald J. Hewitt Jr.

Jennifer Lamb

Charles Page

Susan Purkhiser

Keith Siglinger

Jodi Michelle Pynn

Steve Mack

David Paul Lord

John P. 'Jack' McLaughlin

Norman Douglass

Roy Farfel

Kurt D. Lott

Christo Morse

Eliza Coleman

Peter Epstein

Janet Paparazzo

Nan Bernstein Freed

Michael Russo

Andrew Dupin

Patrick Clayton

Carl Sprague

Judy Richter

Edward 'Tantar' LeViseur

Lori Hicks

Alec Hirschfeld

Felice Diamond

Yves De Bono

Dawn Y. Line

Josh Blakeslee

Richie Ford

Phil H. Fravel

Shoshana Rubin

François Duhamel

Jerry DeBlau

Tim Driscoll

David Larue

Matiki Anoff

Peter Girolami

Chris Centrella

Tony Campenni

Robin Squibb

Dean M. King

Ron Colucci

Kris Moran

Suzanne McCabe

Winsome G. McKoy

David Gulick

Aaron F. Quarles

Jacqueline Payne

Jerry Holway

Louis Sabat

David Hill

Nicole Furia

Debbie Holbrook

Theodore Suchecki

Sarah Jackson Burt

Marty Keener Cherrix

George Jenson

Jeffrey DeBell

Anya Colloff

Guy Adan

Maria DeVane

Laura Berning

James V. Kent

Carolyn Pickman

Robert Martini

Curtis Roush

Jenny Lee Wright

Kenneth Dodd

Paul Massey

Thomas C. Nisbet

Tricia Perrott

Ruth Sullivan

Mike Roberts

Bill Coe

John Grimolizzi

Leslie Shatz

Sara Hegarty

Robert Elhai

Anthony Dunne

Wayne Simpson

Jonathan Sheffer

Paul Ensby

Marc Hirschfeld

Matthew Brookman

Philip Alton

Elliot Goldenthal

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