Dream with the Fishes (1997)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Finn Taylor

Writers (WGA):

Finn Taylor (story) &
Jeffrey D. Brown (story) ...

Release Date:

20 June 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

An oddball odyssey about voyeurism, LSD and nude bowling!

Plot:

Terry is a suicidal voyeur who treats a dying addict to a final binge, but Terry will only do this if he promises to kill him.

Plot Keywords:

Voyeur | Bizarre | Terminal Illness | Bowling | Black Comedy

Cast

David Arquette	...	Terry
Brad Hunt	...	Nick
Cathy Moriarty	...	Aunt Elise
Kathryn Erbe	...	Liz
Patrick McGaw	...	Don
J.E. Freeman	...	Joe, Nick's Father
Timi Prulhiere	...	Michelle
Anita Barone	...	Mary
Allyce Beasley	...	Sophia
Peter Gregory	...	Pharmacist
Richmond Arquette	...	Sheriff
George Maguire	...	Funeral Director
Kristina Robbins	...	Terry's Bowling 'Date'
Katherine Copenhaver	...	Nick's Bowling 'Date'
Gary Brickman	...	Drug Dealer

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:MA | Finland:K-16 (video premiere) | Germany:16 | Portugal:M/16 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Half Moon Bay, California, USA

Company:

3 Ring Circus Films

Quotes:

Liz: You know, Terry, you can't see everything through a pair of binoculars. And sometimes, when a woman cries late at night, it doesn't mean it's about some guy. Sometimes, she's just cryin'.

Movie Connections:

References Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Soundtrack:

Ten Second News

Content over form

I hope you are all as tired as I am of seeing the same repetition of trite films that we are bombarded with. Your local blockbuster new release wall is a shrine full of such poor excuses for film making. When you have a medium so rich and so full of posibilites it is sad to have to suffer through such recycled garbage or non stop toilet humor. This film does neither. This is a movie that for a change explores something that should be meaningful to all of us, life. It does not do it in a cynical and overly oh I am trying to be clever way like The Last Supper. Rather this film has a philosophy and does not cop out like say City of Angels where Nicholas Cage decides who cares if God doesn't care as long as I can go swimming naked. Sure the actors are not the best but then Top Flight actors do not play peeping Tom perverts or dying hill billies for the most part. What you do get is a good story that is worth your while. It is listed as a comedy but film's like this defy genre because it is a story. It is a story with its own points and messages that is not carefully placed into a three act dramatic structure. Go watch October Sky if you want heart warming.