Dream a Little Dream

Dream a little Dream is an American comedy film from the year 1989 by Marc Rocco.

Action

Bobby Keller is secretly in love with Lainie Diamond and shares together with Ike Baker Coleman Ettinger dreams. Coleman, who lives right next to Bobby's School, explains to his friend Ike, saying he was investigating dreams and am on the verge of being able to clarify the mystery of dreaming what he wanted to try it out with his beloved wife, Gena. Together with her, he makes the evening in his garden concentration exercises, meditation and Tai Chi. They concentrate so much that they take Bobby and Lainie which pass by chance, with a clash in itself. Coleman and Gena disappear, and her mind goes through each of the body of Bobby and Lainie. Coleman has gained complete control over Bobby's body and sets out to find Gena, so he is attempting to approach Lainie. But Genas spirit was not strong enough to take over Lainies body, so it is indeed in it, but Lainie still has control over himself.

In Coleman's dream Bobby tells him how he should behave now. He also tells him to hurry, so he does not lose Gena and advised him to behave like unto himself, Bobby, is Lainie would behave towards to have a chance with her. But when Coleman tried to behave like Bobby, which had its effect on Lainie. He then behaves Lainie over like a gentleman to be her at least close to. But when he tells her that they were an old couple in love, he scares them with this truth. Before they fled before him, he asks them to listen to their dreams, because if he was speaking the truth, they will remember the dream. Lainie divides then the same dream with Coleman, making them not only believes him but also realizes that he does not want them back but only have his beloved wife Gena.

Lainie wants Coleman now help to use his last chance to retrieve his wife. If Lainie just fall asleep again and dream, so Gena would be lost forever. So she agrees to the experiment of Coleman and tried to concentrate. However, both are interrupted by Lainies mother who forbids her daughter from now to meet with Bobby. Coleman is horrified and hears only Lainies promise that she would not rather sleep and dream, before the experiment was completed. Lainie is then dragged home and sedated with sleeping pills. Although Coleman hurry, just in time before Lainie is asleep, to appear, but it's already too late. Lainie is asleep. Coleman is horrified and goes sadly home to go to sleep himself. But when he wakes up the next morning, everything seems to be fine again. His wife Gena is back, without that she knows what happened and Bobby and Lainie are now a couple.

Criticism

In the Chicago Sun- Times criticized the renowned film critic Roger Ebert, that one. A part of the whole body swap movies tired and that the film " expressed tactful, incomprehensible" is The plot was a " disorganized mess and the director, Marc Rocco, is not capable of this silly story" clearly present. Overall, the film was " aggressively unschaubar ".

Said Walter Goodman of the liberal daily New York Times that the film "is unclear [ ... ], incoherent, [ and ] incomprehensible" is.

Richard Harrington said in the Washington Post that the film has a " dazed and confused " leave behind, because you still do not know " after two agonizing hours," what it would in the film. He certified to the director as " a sense of suspense, because just when you think it can not get any worse, it will das. "

The lexicon of the International film said: " Largely unattractive entertainment, humor and deeper meaning missing. The best thing about the film is the design credits. " In Germany, he started on 6 July 1989 and is available on VHS and since 23 October 2009 DVD since 30 July 1990.

Soundtrack

Publication

The film opened on March 3, 1989 in U.S. cinemas and could import a little more than 5.5 million U.S. dollars.

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