18 year old Audrey (Agnes Bruckner) lives with her father (John Corbett) in a remote community in the breathtakingly beautiful New Mexico desert. Though Audrey longs to go to college, she spends her days taking care of her father, who hasn't left home since Audrey's mother died, and her best friend Calista (Kelli Garner), who dreams of becoming Miss America but is struggling with a life-challenging illness.
The summer after Audrey graduates from high school, her world is changed forever when an attractive young man named Mookie (Justin Long) moves in next door with his mother Mary (Gina Gershon) and her fiancée, Herb (Chris Mulkey). Knowing how much Calista longs for romance, Audrey encourages Mookie to ask Calista on a date. He obliges, and he and Calista soon become a couple. Audrey, however, finds herself developing feelings for Mookie, and as these feelings grow it becomes harder and harder to remain the dependable, selfless person that her father and best friend have always counted on her to be.
Dreamland is the story of a young woman who has taken care of everyone around her but ultimately learns to take care of herself. It is also the story of how those whose lives she touched must find the strength to let her go.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
An outstanding, unknown, psychological movie.:
I saw part of this movie on the Lifetime Movie Network,
and decided to purchase it, so as to watch it beginning
to end. The basic premise of the story revolves around two friends
who live in a trailer park in a very desolate town. One of
the girls is dying. Their friendship is challenged by the
needs of an agoraphobic father, and the arrival of a new
family, whose son attracts both friends at once. The movie very subtly and masterfully addresses the issues
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a somewhat morose film of a trailer park life:
*Dreamland* tries to paint a sterotypical life at an isolated trailer park, without the Jerry Springer drama. Life and time goes by slowly, with almost nothing to do. Audrey, a poetress, has just graduated from high school. She stashes acceptance letters from colleges in a hat box. The reason for this is because she feels obligated to care for her widowed father, who does nothing but drink and smoke, and her best friend, Calista, who is afflicted with MS and dreams of being Miss America. A new... more info
Awesome little sleeper:
I loved this movie. It was different, very well acted & directed, and I must admit had some nice shirtless scenes to boot.
There's a fine line between losing it and getting it:
This is an odd sort of film - simplistic yet profound, sad yet somehow uplifting. There's a slight edge of surreality to the whole story, but the characters couldn't be more human. Basically, Dreamland left me feeling a bit odd and slightly out of sorts, but in a good way. It's as if I expected some kind of enlightenment to break through the clouds in the final moments, and the fact that this didn't happen strikes me as somehow profound. You might recognize the lead actress from the film The Woods, but... more info
