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Title: Dreamers (1999)
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Cast
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Jeremy Jordan | ... | |
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Mark Ballou | ... | |
| Courtney Gains | ... | ||
| Portia Dawson | ... | ||
| Brian Krause | ... | ||
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Camille Gaston | ... | |
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Ruth de Sosa | ... | |
| Paul Bartel | ... | ||
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Lauralinda Bedell | ... | |
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Broc Benedict | ... | |
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Rina Bennett | ... | |
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Kelly Biddlecome | ... | |
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Glenda Morgan Brown | ... | |
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Robert Cavanaugh | ... | |
Storyline
A bittersweet satire about Hollywood's bottomless capacity for corruption, Dreamers follows the travails of two friends who leave their small Tennessee town for Tinseltown. Opening with a view of Hollywood through the lens of an Asian tourist's video camera accompanied by the movie-loving tourist's ramblings, the film cuts to Jefferson City, Tennessee, where two boys indulge in fantasies of fleeing to L.A. Several years later, one of those boys, Dave, is heading west to join his childhood friend Ethan in Hollywood. Ethan has spent the past five years trying unsuccessfully to finish his untitled film, scraping together a living as an Amway salesman and construction worker. Following his arrival, Dave finds brief work on a porn set before being fired, and, as part of an attempt to help Ethan find funding for his movie, loses his virginity to a lusty Beverly Hills housewife. Written by Rebecca Flint
This film is about as self-reflexive as you can get: an indie film about making indie films. Midwesterner Dave follows his more street-wise friend Ethan to Hollywood with the intention of making it big as filmmakers. But it's not all fun and games in La-la land, as Dave comes to find out. Jordan and Ballou give excellent performances as Dave and Ethan, respectively. Dreamers is independent filmmaking at its best.