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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Miami HeraldBill CosfordMiami HeraldBill CosfordThe movie is just self-conscious enough to get some bad reviews, and it's going to draw some walkouts. Pay no attention. There's something wonderful here...It's a fascinating film. [3 March 1989, p.6]
- 63Chicago TribuneGene SiskelChicago TribuneGene SiskelThe story is an uneasy mix of adult dreams of immortality and adolescent anguish. [3 March 1989, p.A]
- 50Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasSweet-natured but hopelessly confused. [3 March 1989, p.6-10]
- 40TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineFor a romantic comedy, this offers few laughs and little tenderness, and mainly evokes confusion with its muddled storyline and inept execution.
- 38Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrThere are some sweet impulses in first-time director Marc Rocco's Dream a Little Dream, but it's a mess. [3 March 1989, p.47]
- 25Chicago TribuneDave KehrChicago TribuneDave KehrIt's not, however, a particularly pleasant surprise. Directed by 25-year-old Marc Rocco (son of actor Alex Rocco, who appears in the film), Dream a Little Dream places the usual plot inanities of the genre in the context of a wildly ambitious, baroque-surrealist style. The effect is a little as if the late Russian mystic Andrei Tarkovsky had directed "Police Academy VI." [9 March 1989, p.6]
- 25St. Louis Post-DispatchSt. Louis Post-DispatchDream a Little Dream is so murky and convoluted that it just comes off as being tired. [10 March 1989, p.3F]
- 20The New York TimesWalter GoodmanThe New York TimesWalter GoodmanThis is one incoherent movie; I have a hunch that the writers could not figure it out, either.
- 12Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAn aggressively unwatchable movie.
- 10Washington PostRichard HarringtonWashington PostRichard HarringtonYou could call it a nightmare but that would be an insult to Elm Street.