Dream a Little Dream

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Movie
German title Dream a Little Dream
(alternative title: Dream and forget!)
Original title Dream a Little Dream
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Marc Rocco
script Marc Rocco,
Daniel Jay Franklin ,
DE Eisenberg
production DE Eisenberg,
Marc Rocco
music John William Dexter
camera King Baggot
cut Russell Livingstone
occupation

Dream a little Dream is an American comedy film from 1989 directed by Marc Rocco .

action

Bobby Keller is secretly in love with Lainie Diamond and shares his dreams with Ike Baker Coleman Ettinger. Coleman, who lives right next to Bobby's school, explains to his friend Ike that he is investigating dreams and that he is about to clear the secret of dreaming, which he wants to try out with his beloved wife, Gena. Together with her he does concentration exercises, meditation and tai chi in his garden in the evenings . In doing so, they concentrate so much that they bump into Bobby and Lainie, who happen to be walking by. Coleman and Gena disappear, and their spirits pass into Bobby and Lainie's bodies, respectively. Having taken complete control of Bobby's body, Coleman sets out to find Gena, so he tries to approach Lainie. But Gena's mind wasn't strong enough to take over Lainie's body, which is why she's inside of her, but Lainie is still in control of herself.

In Coleman's dream, Bobby advises him how to act now. He also tells him to hurry up so he doesn't lose Gena and advises him to act like himself, Bobby, to act towards Lainie in order to have a chance with her. But when Coleman tries to act like Bobby, it doesn't work for Lainie. Thereupon he behaves towards Lainie like a gentleman in order to at least be close to her. However, when he tells her that they are an old couple in love, he scares her with this truth. Before she flees from him, he asks her to listen to her dreams, because if he speaks the truth, she will remember the dream. Lainie then shares the same dream with Coleman, whereby she not only believes him, but also realizes that he doesn't want her back, only his beloved wife Gena.

Lainie now wants to help Coleman seize his last chance to get his wife back. If Lainie only fell asleep and dream one more time, Gena would be lost forever. So she agrees to Coleman's experiment and tries to concentrate. But both are interrupted by Lainie's mother, who forbids her daughter to see Bobby from now on. Coleman is horrified and only hears Lainie's promise that she will not sleep and dream until the experiment is over. Lainie is then dragged home and sedated with sleeping pills. Coleman hurries to show up in time for Lainie to fall asleep, but it's already too late. Lainie fell asleep. Coleman is horrified and sadly goes home to go to sleep himself. But when he wakes up the next morning, everything seems to be fine again. His wife Gena is back without her knowing what happened and Bobby and Lainie are now a couple.

criticism

In the Chicago Sun-Times , the renowned film critic Roger Ebert criticized that on the one hand one is tired of all the body-swapping films and that the film is "tactfully expressed, incomprehensible". The plot is an "unorganized mess and the director, Marc Rocco, is unable to portray this simple-minded story" clearly. Overall, the film is "aggressively obscure".

Even Walter Goodman of the liberal daily New York Times said that the film was "not clear [...], incoherent, incomprehensible [and]".

Richard Harrington wrote in the Washington Post that the film leaves you “dazed and confused” because “after two excruciating hours” you still don't know what the film is about. He also attested the director "a feeling for suspense , because just when you think it can't get any worse, it will."

The lexicon of international films said: “Mostly uninteresting entertainment, humor and deeper meaning are missing. The best thing about the film is the design of the credits. ”In Germany, it started on July 6, 1989 and has been available on VHS since July 30, 1990 and on DVD since October 23, 2009 .

Soundtrack

  1. " Dream a Little Dream of Me " - Mickey Thomas - 2:52
  2. "Time Runs Wild" - Danny Wilde - 4:44
  3. "Whenever There's a Night" - Mike Reno - 3:34
  4. "Dreams Come True (Stand Up and Take It)" - Lone Justice - 4:05
  5. "Into the Mystic" - Van Morrison - 3:30
  6. "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" - REM - 4:00
  7. "Rock On" - Michael Damian - 3:21
  8. "You'd Better Wait" - Fee Waybill - 3:21
  9. "Never Turn Away" - Chris Thompson - 3:07
  10. "I've Got Dreams to Remember" - Otis Redding - 3:12 am
  11. "Dream a Little Dream of Me" - Mel Tormé - 2:51

publication

The film opened in US theaters on March 3, 1989 and grossed just over 5.5 million US dollars.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roger Ebert : Dream A Little Dream (PG-13) on suntimes.com of March 3, 1989 (English), accessed on June 8, 2012
  2. ↑ Walter Goodman: Dream A Little Dream (1989) on nytimes.com of March 3, 1989 (English), accessed June 8, 2012
  3. ↑ Richard Harrington: 'Dream a Little Dream' on washingtonpost.com, March 6, 1989 (English), accessed June 8, 2012
  4. ↑ Dream a Little Dream in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed June 8, 2012
  5. ↑ Dream a Little Dream at boxofficemojo.com , accessed June 8, 2012