Metacritic Film

Dreamland

Starring Agnes Bruckner, Kelli Garner, Justin Long, John Corbett, Gina Gershon, and Chris Mulkey

MPAA RATING: PG-13 on appeal for mature thematic elements, including drug content and sexuality

Horizon Entertainment
Drama
88 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters December 1, 2006

Dreamland is the story of a young woman who has taken care of everyone around her but ultimately learns to take care of herself. It is also the story of how those whose lives she touched must find the strength to let her go.

WRITTEN BY
Tom Willett

DIRECTED BY
Jason Matzner

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

57 / 100

Critic Reviews

80 Film Threat
A great effort from first time feature filmmaker Jason Matzer.
75 San Francisco Chronicle
Dreamland has vitality and emotional truth underlying all its interactions. And the young women, Agnes Bruckner and Kelli Garner, are superb.
60 Variety
Jason Matzner's woozily romantic, gorgeously lensed directorial debut about a trailer park love triangle seems to unspool in a dream of its own, and despite some sketchy story elements, much of it is pretty intoxicating -- that is, until the unambiguous life lessons bring pic down to earth with an earnest splat.
50 Austin Chronicle
It's got a good creative pedigree and confident execution – as well as nifty design, down to its Hammond-organ Photek soundtrack and desert chic – but this ensemble piece set in a rural mobile-home park steps off the trail into melodrama from time to time.
50 Boston Globe
If you're young, the film may intoxicate you. If you're older, it may make you relieved you're no longer young.

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