Dreamcatcher (2003)
29 %
Reviews Counted: 164 Fresh: 48 Rotten:116 Average Rating: 4.7/10
Consensus:
An incoherent and overly long creature feature.
Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 21, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $33,623,361
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Stephen King, Lawrence Kasdan's DREAMCATCHER follows four friends who receive psychic powers as children when they aid and befriend a mentally retarded boy named Duddits. As adults, Jonesy (Damian Lewis), Henry (Thomas Jane), Beaver (Jason Lee), and Pete (Timothy... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Damian Lewis, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Timothy Olyphant, Morgan Freeman
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Screenwriter: William Goldman, Lawrence Kasdan
Producer: Charles Okun, Lawrence Kasdan
Composer: James Newton Howard
Screenwriter: William Goldman, Lawrence Kasdan
Producer: Charles Okun, Lawrence Kasdan
Composer: James Newton Howard
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Call me crude -- I have to love a scene of suspense built around fallen toothpicks and a toilet monster.
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07/30/07
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01/26/06
Those looking for a stomach-turning alien film may be pleased, but those looking for a smarter psychological thriller will be sorely disappointed.
06/20/05
I challenge you to name a movie with a more convoluted or preposterous storyline.
01/15/05
What begins as a pique to our collective curiosity quickly degenerates into what is essentially a shootout between the good guys and the monsters.
09/20/04
We have a long wait as Dreamcatcher cycles through pay-per-view, cable, and special edition DVD, until at last, like other inept King vehicles, it sinks into obscurity.
07/06/04
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05/19/04
Top Critic
A mishmash of styles and genres, Dreamcatcher tries so hard to do so much that it ends up accomplishing very little.
01/06/04
Logic flies out the window, even given the fantastic elements, and the initially interesting characters are soon reduced to cardboard cutouts.
01/04/04
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11/11/03
Judging from this movie Stephen King has been watching a lot of X-Files lately . . .
11/06/03
...bogs down in psychological mumbo-jumbo, redundancy, imitation, and sheer vulgarity, with a multitude of flashbacks interrupting the flow of what little narrative is left.
09/16/03
An awful, ludicrous blend of sci-fi and horror, crammed full of self-indulgent Stephen King gimmicks.
09/09/03
Kasdan's film -- like King's book -- is too long, and loses its way less than an hour in, once the stuck-in-the-woods-with-a-monster horror plot turns into something else.
09/06/03
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