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Annette Bening dreams of Robert Downey Jr. killing people. Therapy would be cheaper.

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In Dreams (1999)

forgotten '90s gemFreudian fever dreamwaterlogged nightmare

Overview

Horror Thriller Mystery

A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.

Content warning

based on novel or book murder serial killer kidnapping dreams suicide attempt

Standout Aspects

Acting

Bening commits completely to unraveling; RDJ plays killer as fragile artist

Direction

Jordan turns flooded landscapes into psychological architecture

Cinematography

Underwater dream sequences that drown you in saturated dread

Best for:Solo: Late night, lights off, questioning your own dreams afterward·Streaming: Hunting buried '90s oddities that bombed then, haunt now

Heads up:Disturbing: Child death drives the plot; parental grief is relentless·Emotional: Suicide attempt and complete psychological collapse depicted rawly

Director

Neil Jordan

ReleasedJan 15, 1999

Runtime1h 40m

StatusReleased

Vibe

Paceslow

Intensitymedium

Tonedark

Feelheavy

Budget$30M·Revenue$12.0M

Top Cast

Annette Bening

Claire Cooper

Aidan Quinn

Paul Cooper

Stephen Rea

Doctor Silverman

Robert Downey Jr.

Vivian Thompson

Paul Guilfoyle

Detective Jack Kay

Dennis Boutsikaris

Doctor Stevens

Lonnie Farmer

Nurse Rosco

Margo Martindale

Nurse Floyd

Pamela Payton-Wright

Ethel

Katie Sagona

Rebecca Cooper

Geoffrey Wigdor

Vivian Thompson - As Teenager

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Trivia

Bening and Jordan fought the studio for the bleak ending; test audiences got a happier cut that died in theaters.

Cultural

Released weeks after The Sixth Sense, this similarly-themed thriller drowned at the box office and became a footnote.

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