Synopsis
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in their 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.
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Cast
- Dennis QuaidAlex Gardner
- Max von SydowDoctor Paul Novotny
- Christopher PlummerBob Blair
- Eddie AlbertThe President
- Kate CapshawJane DeVries
- David Patrick KellyTommy Ray Glatman
- George WendtCharlie Prince
- Larry GelmanMr. Webber
- Cory 'Bumper' YothersBuddy
- Redmond GleesonSnead
Recommendations
- 80
Empire
The sometimes dark sci-fi thriller tone is punctured nicely by Quaid's one-liners, and Capshaw is on good form. Very, very '80s, but lots of fun too. - 80
The New Yorker
Tight, clever thriller. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
It's a political conspiracy thriller, a science fiction adventure, and sort of a love story. Most movies that try to crowd so much into an hour and a half end up looking like a shopping list, but Dreamscape works, maybe because it has a sense of humor. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Made on a tight budget, the special effects are never very convincing, but the performances are all good. If you're willing to suspend disbelief, this is a neat thriller that's enjoyable from start to finish. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
The longest comic episode is too heavily presented, and the whole plot slows down during the third quarter of the picture. But most of Dreamscape is light, lively, and entertaining. [21 Sep 1984, p.23] - 70
Time Out
As a night out this is as good a piece of solid, down-the-line schlock as anything to come along since Halloween III. - 70
The New York Times
An enjoyably half-baked movie, and if it were any less farfetched it would be less fun. - 50
Variety
Film [from a screen story by David Loughery] centers on 'dreamlinking', the psychic projection of one person's consciousness into a sleeping person's subconscious, or his dreams. If that sounds far-fetched, it is.
