Daydream Nation

Name: Daydream Nation
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: May 6, 2011
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 57

2011

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Anchor Bay Films | Release Date: May 6, 2011 | R

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Caroline Wexler is facing a teenager’s nightmare: her widowed father has moved them from the big city to a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. When Caroline realizes she has nothing in common with the burnout losers in her new school she pursues the one person with who excites her interest – her handsome young teacher, MrSeventeen-year-old Caroline Wexler is facing a teenager’s nightmare: her widowed father has moved them from the big city to a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. When Caroline realizes she has nothing in common with the burnout losers in her new school she pursues the one person with who excites her interest – her handsome young teacher, Mr Anderson. A bizarre love triange ensues between Caroline, Mr Anderson, and a sweet, but troubled classmate. Featuring a hit indie soundtrack in this mash-up of the bizarre and the beautiful, Daydream Nation is a coming-of-age story for the 21st century. (Anchor Bay Films)… Expand

Director: Michael Goldbach

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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Stephen Holden

May 5, 2011

Daydream Nation hopscotches forward and backward and in and out of the surreal; its abrupt tangents are announced by chapter headings. In the most complicated sequence the film tracks three characters simultaneously. The cinematography is darkly lush in an ominous "Twin Peaks" mode. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

May 6, 2011

Toggling between the tonalities of "Donnie Darko," "Ghost World" and the collected works of David Lynch, the blackly witty Daydream Nation takes its title from a Sonic Youth album. Read full review

Joe Leydon

May 2, 2011

Charged with alternating currents of teen angst, sardonic wit, nervous dread and impudent sensuality, Daydream Nation suggests "Juno" as reimagined by David Lynch, or a funnier, sunnier "Donnie Darko." Read full review

Mark Olsen

May 5, 2011

A fitfully engaging effort that is most successful as a performance piece for actors Kat Dennings and Reece Thompson. Read full review

Keith Phipps

May 5, 2011

It's a film about teen angst that's too caught up in its characters' state of mind to see its way through to the other side. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

May 3, 2011

Daydream is decently acted, overwritten, slickly shot, decked out with the requisite indie soundtrack, and propped up with angst-ridden poses and pouting lips. It's also another film in which on-screen teens, especially the nubile femme fatale at the center, are but vessels to showcase the screenwriter's irony-drenched, self-satisfied intellect. Read full review

Nick Schager

May 3, 2011

Michael Goldbach's pretentious take on identity development is woefully lacking in either subversive humor or genuine pathos; the overwrought end-of-the-world backdrop of a rampaging serial killer and a toxic industrial fire only poisons the concoction further. Read full review

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beelzie14

Aug 24, 2011

A great watch with some passionate performances from indie and mainstream actors/actresses. Kat Dennings is beautiful but also a fantastic actress who can portray a vast array of emotions. She is the next Ellen Page in my eyes.
I liken this to Juno on acid washed down with a bottle ofA great watch with some passionate performances from indie and mainstream actors/actresses. Kat Dennings is beautiful but also a fantastic actress who can portray a vast array of emotions. She is the next Ellen Page in my eyes.
I liken this to Juno on acid washed down with a bottle of absinthe. Heart-warming and romantic with tragic characters making their way through mixed up lives.
I cannot recommend highly enough if you enjoy films with layers and depth of story.… Expand