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Dreamscape (1984) 6.3
A young psychic on the run from himself is recruited by the government to save the US president whose mind is trapped inside the dreamworld. Director:Joseph Ruben |
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A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams. Written by &view=simple&sort=alpha">Zaphod <aaa@scs.leeds.ac.uk>
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Alex Gardner has an extraordinary gift. To keep it may cost him his life... See more »Parents Guide:
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15 August 1984 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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[shouting]
Tommy Ray Glatman: He did this to you! He did this to you!
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Originally the producers wanted Maurice Jarre to write the music for the film orchestrally, but Jarre insisted on scoring the film electronically because he felt that it was the right approach for the material and also sets the tone of the film. See more »Goofs
When Alex is playing his saxophone in his apartment near the beginning of the film, he is clearly not playing the instrument. See more »Quotes
Tommy Ray Glatman: Help me, Help me! There he is! He's the one who pushed the button. He did this to you![shouting]
Tommy Ray Glatman: He did this to you! He did this to you!
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For 1984, this is a good sci-fi movie. I remember watching its as a kid. I was scared for days of the Snake Man in the movie. Having watched it recently, I noticed that it had naturally lost the terror that it instilled when I was a child. Despite this, it brought back foggy memories and allowed me to analyze and enjoy the film on an adult level.
The story concerns a project that allows telepaths to enter into the dreams of others. Inside these dreams they are able to help/harm the individuals from/with their nightmares. Dennis Quaid plays a young Alex Gardner who possesses the gift of telepathy. Under the study of Max Von Sydow and Kate Capshaw (forgot how attractive she was), Alex enter patient's dreams and tries to help them. But with this ability, there are others that would use it as a weapon. When the President (Eddie Albert) begins having haunting nightmares, can someone help him escape his dreams before its too late?
Dreamscape delivers some of the eighties creativity and originality that we can only hope for in today's movies. Take out the gore and grotesqueness of "The Cell" and you could say this movie was its inspiration.