| | | Four friends hung a dreamcatcher in their cabin. It's about to catch something it cannot stop.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
Four young friends perform a heroic act and are changed forever by the uncanny powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they are overtaken by a blizzard, a vicious storm in which something much more ominous moves. Challenged to stop a deadly alien force, they confront an unparalleled horror, with the fate of the world in the balance.
"...the most surprising performance coming from Donnie Whalberg..." Tony Toscano, Talking Pictures
"It's challenging, convoluted, incredibly creative, and pure fantasy. It's also pretty darn entertaining." John Venable, Supercala.com
Editor's Note
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 Olyphant), reunite every winter at a cabin deep in the Maine woods to hunt, drink, and celebrate the bond they share with Duddits (Donnie Wahlberg) and each other. However, this year their wilderness reunion is marred by disturbing incidents which begin with the discovery of a lost, sick hunter and a frozen figure in the middle of a remote road. As events escalate and horrific creatures emerge from unsightly spaces, heavily armed government operatives, led by the imposing Colonel Curtis (Morgan Freeman), arrive in the area, and soon the situation becomes an all-out battle for the fate of humanity.A crazy-quilt combination of horror, thriller, sci-fi, drama, and action genres, DREAMCATCHER features aspects of other King screen adaptations such as STAND BY ME, IT, and THE TOMMYKNOCKERS, along with films such as THE THING and SIGNS. Seemingly disparate elements that filter into this giddily strange story include creeping red mold, fatal bowel movements, deadly worms with needlelike teeth, an imaginary space called the "memory warehouse," a deranged military officer, and an ailing man obsessed with Scooby-Doo. Director/screenwriter Kasdan, along with veteran screenwriter William Goldman, revel in the absurdity of the tale, crafting an often chilling and sometimes funny film that delights in its own thoroughly entertaining outrageousness.
| Features | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | DreamWeavers - The Visual Effects Of Dreamcatcher | | DreamMakers - A Journey Through Production | | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 | | The Original Ending | | 4 Deleted Scenes | | DreamWriter - A Look At Stephen King And The Process He Went Through When Writing Dreamcatcher. | | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16x9 TVs | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 12/9/2008 |
| Running Time: 136 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 24664 | | UPC: 00085392466429 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.40:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
"...Lee is particularly good and Brit Damian Lewis makes a strong Hollywood debut..." 05/01/2003 p.96Variety 5 of 10
This overlong and unwieldy grab-bag of vintage monster-movie elements starts intriguingly as a snowbound deep-woods chiller, but gradually dissolves into a mess of other-worldly invasion and military counter-offensive. - David Rooney
Chicago Sun-Times 3 of 10
Dreamcatcher begins as the intriguing story of friends who share a telepathic gift, and ends as a monster movie of stunning awfulness. What went wrong? How could director Lawrence Kasdan and writer William Goldman be responsible for a film that goes so awesomely wrong? How could even Morgan Freeman, an actor all but impervious to bad material, be brought down by the awfulness? Goldman, who has written insightfully about the screenwriters' trade, may get a long, sad book out of this one - Roger Ebert
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