Sunday, 17 August 2014

In Dreams - reviews

Mum and wife Claire Cooper (Annette Bening) has always had dreams, dreams about things which have turned out to be real. So when she has a recurring dream about a young girl being led through an orchard, her pilot husband informs the police, but despite his information he’s told that the body of a missing girl has already been found.

Still haunted by the same dream Claire is convinced it will come true and soon enough her own daughter Rebecca goes missing after a dance recital in the woods and the discovery of her body makes Claire lose her mind, landing her in hospital.

With her visions becoming more detailed, Claire tries to convince her husband and the doctors that she’s not mad but is channelling the dreams of a killer, but when her behaviour becomes more risky and violent, she is locked up in a psychiatric hospital with the doctors convinced she is a danger to herself.

However, when Claire discovers her room hides the secret scribblings of a former patient – the person she is connected to – she knows that to find another missing girl and convince everyone she’s not mad, she has to follow him through the dreams they share.

Billed as a thriller and co-starring Robert Downey Jr, this movie was essentially a horror movie which I avoid watching and was un-convincing in some places – such as allowing a suicidal patient to stay in a first floor room with an opening window as well as keeping a robe tie!

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