After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected...
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Title: Dream Lover (1986)
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Cast
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| Kristy McNichol | ... | Kathy Gardner | |
| Ben Masters | ... | Michael Hansen | |
| Paul Shenar | ... | Ben Gardner | |
| Justin Deas | ... | Kevin McCann | |
| John McMartin | ... | Martin | |
| Gayle Hunnicutt | ... | Claire | |
| Joseph Culp | ... | Danny | |
| Matthew Penn | ... | Billy | |
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Paul West | ... | Shep |
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Matthew Long | ... | Vaughn Capisi |
| Jon Polito | ... | Doctor James | |
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Ellen Parker | ... | Nurse Jennifer |
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Lynn Webster | ... | Policewoman |
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Brenda Cowling | ... | Hotel Manager |
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Charles West | ... | Man at Hilton Hotel |
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After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected results ... Written by Homme A. Piest <piest@pobox.leidenuniv.nl>
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painting | father daughter relationship | domineering father | stabbed in the back | knife |Taglines:
Imagine the terror of living a nightmare every time you sleep...*EVERY* TIME YOU SLEEP. See more »Parents Guide:
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2 April 1986 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$202,733, 23 February 1986Gross USA:
$502,237Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$502,237Company Credits
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If there isn't much in this modest, sub-Hitchcock thriller worth criticizing it's only because there isn't much in it worth noticing at all. The premise is fascinating: that a drug might be used (or, in this case, abused) to block the chemical in our brains that inhibits muscular action during sleep, allowing us to unconsciously act out our dreams. But the script never aspires toward anything more than a routine psycho-thriller of curiously limited means: the film seems to have been made on two or three sparse studio sets with a very small cast, led by Kristy McNichol as the young test subject who naturally forgets to ask about an antidote. A throw away release doomed the film to a quick, easy death at the box office, which is a shame considering the far worse features being plugged that same summer, and the unsettling streak of sadism didn't help matters: most of McNichol's dreams find her a victim of rape and/or extreme violence.