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| Vestron Pictures | Release Date: March 3, 1989 |
Starring:
Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Harry Dean Stanton, Jason Robards, Matt Adler, Meredith Salenger, Piper Laurie, Susan Blakely, Victoria Jackson, William McNamara
Summary:
An accident puts the consciousness of an elderly dream researcher into the body of a bratty teenager. The problem? The kid prefers dreamworld limbo to real life.
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The movie is just self-conscious enough to get some bad reviews, and it's going to draw some walkouts. Pay no attention. There's something wonderful here...It's a fascinating film. [3 March 1989, p.6]
A nice little dream, too, hardly epic but weirdly satisfying, the kind
you wake up from and dearly want to re-enter, just for another drowsy
moment or two. [3 March 1989]
The story is an uneasy mix of adult dreams of immortality and adolescent anguish. [3 March 1989, p.A]
This unbearable cross-generational fantasy, with Coreys Haim and Feldman, has one bit that sums up its overall ineptitude. It's a romantic interlude featuring the great Sinatra standard Young at Heart; instead of the 1954 hit version on Capitol, the filmmakers use the 1962 Reprise remake - photographed on a revolving turntable (and with the wrong label) as a 78! A 78 in the era of Gene Pitney? - what preschool did the filmmakers graduate from, anyway? [8 Sept 1989, p.3D]
It's not, however, a particularly pleasant surprise. Directed by 25-year-old Marc Rocco (son of actor Alex Rocco, who appears in the film), Dream a Little Dream places the usual plot inanities of the genre in the context of a wildly ambitious, baroque-surrealist style. The effect is a little as if the late Russian mystic Andrei Tarkovsky had directed "Police Academy VI." [9 March 1989, p.6]
Dream a Little Dream is so murky and convoluted that it just comes off as being tired. [10 March 1989, p.3F]
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