Synopsis
Forced to move to a boring backwater town, a teenager embarks on affairs with a teacher and a stoner classmate.
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Cast
- Kat DenningsCaroline Wexler
- Reece ThompsonThurston
- Josh LucasBarry Anderson
- Andie MacDowellEnid Goldberg
- Rachel BlanchardMs. Budge
- Natasha CalisLily Goldberg
- Quinn LordThomas
- Calum WorthyCraig
- Laura JacobsLaura Lee
- Ted WhittallMr. Wexler
Recommandations
- 80
The New York Times
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. - 75
New York Post
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. - 70
Variety
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." - 60
Los Angeles Times
A fitfully engaging effort that is most successful as a performance piece for actors Kat Dennings and Reece Thompson. - 60
New York Daily News
Writer-director Michael Goldbach fills the story with too many distractions, but Dennings, known for "Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist," is feline and fun. - 50
The A.V. Club
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. - 40
Village Voice
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. - 20
Time Out
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.
