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Film · 2023

Dream Scenario

Directed by Kristoffer Borgli · starring Jordan Raf, Jeremy Levick and Nicolas Cage

  • 1 h 40 min
  • 15
  • Comedy
  • USA
  • Released in the UK 9 November 2023
  • 7.9 AverageMovieNCo
  • 7.5 Users2 votes
  • 8.3 Critics5 reviews
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Synopsis

'Dream Scenario' is an American comedy written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli. The film stars actor Nicolas Cage, who also produces the film with Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen under the banner Square Peg. Production company A24 bought the rights of the film and is also in charge of US distribution of the movie, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) is a middle-age man with a monotonous and boring life who works as a professor at Osler University. At home, his wife leads their relationship and people make fun of him for being so boring, but his life is about to change without him knowing.

Suddenly, Paul becomes worldwide famous for a peculiar motive: millions of people start seeing him in their dreams. The good man instantly becomes a celebrity without wanting it, and 'Dream Scenario' explores precisely the relationships of a regular person with fame. Also how this fame transforms him and he has to assume other people's perceptions of him even if they are not true. And what happens when dreams become nightmares...

'Dream Scenario' has been widely beloved by critics, particularly Nicolas Cage's work, already seen as one of his performances in all of his career.

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The essentials

Runtime
100 min1 hour and 40 minutes
Rating
15Suitable only for 15 years and over
How long is Dream Scenario?
1 hour and 40 minutes (100 minutes).
When was Dream Scenario released in the UK?
It was released in the UK on 9 November 2023.
Who directed Dream Scenario?
Kristoffer Borgli.
Who is in Dream Scenario?
It stars Jordan Raf, Jeremy Levick, Nicolas Cage and Julianne Nicholson.
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Cast

Full cast (29)
Director
Kristoffer Borgli
Writers
Kristoffer Borgli
Producers
Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen

Videos and trailers

See the video
'Dream Scenario' trailer 2:2431 October 2023

Photos and posters

All 10 photos

Reviews

All 5 reviews
7.5 2 votes

What the critics say average 8.3 from 5

  • 9.0 VarietyPeter Debruge Is this a fantasy? A fable? A new kind of horror movie? Actually, Dream Scenario is all of the above and then some, for it also shares a certain postmodern DNA with two of Cage's most… Read
  • 9.0 The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen Over the span of his 120-plus film career, Nicolas Cage has been a lot of things ? but he may have never been as flat-out hilarious as he is in 'Dream Scenario'. Read
  • 8.3 IndiewireDavid Ehrlich Dream Scenario is simply the best absurdist comedy of its kind since 'Anomalisa' (the Kaufman connection being further cemented by a Cage performance that feels like it was born from superimposing… Read

Awards

All the awards

Soundtrack

All 4 songs
  1. Say You'll Say SoGeoffrey Landers Spotify
  2. Pain Is a Useful Tool If You Let It BeJordan Raf Spotify
  3. Early BlueF.J. McMahon Spotify
  4. City of DreamsTalking Heads Spotify

Trivia

All 7 facts

  • Was going to be for Adam Sandler

    At fist, Kristoffer Borgli wrote the film script and Ari Aster was going to direct, having chosen Adam Sandler for the main role. However, after Borgli's last film success, A24 deciden to let him direct his own script and he wanted Nicolas Cage on the main role.

  • Based on a "true" story?

    The story has sort of a base in some reports that went viral in 2009, after a website was affirming that more than 3000 people have dreamt with the same person. Although the invention had some popularity by then, it was soon debunked and revealed to be a guerrilla marketing campaign from Italian publicist Andrea Natella.

  • A FAMILY AFFAIR

    In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Nicolas Cage revealed that while shooting 'Dream Scenario' in Toronto, his cousin Sofia Coppola was also there shooting 'Priscilla', and his uncle Francis Ford Coppola was shooting Megalopolis in Atlanta. The three talked about each of their movies and gave each other feedback.

  • POSSIBLE FAREWELL

    Nicolas Cage wanted to retire after shooting this movie as he thought his meta trilogy 'Pig', 'The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent' and 'Dream Scenario' was the perfect way to end his career.

  • PERSONAL INSPIRATION

    Inspired by another Nicolas Cage movie, 'Adaptation'.

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