By Frank Miller
Dreamscape
Brief Synopsis
A psychic tries to thwart a plot to control the U.S. president through his dreams.
Cast & Crew
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Joseph Ruben
Director
Dennis Quaid
Max Von Sydow
Christopher Plummer
Madison Mason
Virginia Kiser
Film Details
MPAA Rating
Genre
Horror/Science-Fiction
Action
Adventure
Thriller
Release Date
1984
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 35m
Synopsis
A psychic tries to thwart a plot to control the U.S. president through his dreams.
Director
Joseph Ruben
Director
Cast
Dennis Quaid
Max Von Sydow
Christopher Plummer
Madison Mason
Virginia Kiser
Kate Charleston
Kate Capshaw
Fred Waugh
Carey Fox
Kendall Carly Browne
Carl Strano
Timothy Blake
Peter Jason
Larry Gelman
David Patrick Kelly
Eddie Albert
Brian Libby
Redmond Gleeson
George Wendt
Cory Yothers
Bob Terhune
Eric Gold
Crew
Julie Ahlberg
Production Coordinator
James M Arnett
Stunt Coordinator
James Aupperle
Visual Effects
Linda M Bass
Costume Designer
Barbara Boguski
Sound Editor
Gary Bourgeois
Sound
Neil Brody
Sound
Joseph Citarella
Sound
Bruce Cohn Curtis
Producer
Tom Curtis
Executive Producer
Michael Daves
Assistant Editor
Lorenzo Destefano
Associate Editor
Rob Doherty
Assistant Director
M J Elliott
Photography
Julie Feiner
Assistant Editor
Kirk Francis
Sound
James W Gavin
Stunts
David Glaser
Props
Rebecca Greeley
Other
Richard Halsey
Editor
Joseph Hornok
Animal Trainer
Aloma Ichinose
Photography
Dream Quest Images
Matte Painter
Maurice Jarre
Music
John Robert Jennings
Animal Trainer
Jack Johnson
Key Grip
Alan Jones
Creative Consultant
Jerry Ketcham
Assistant Director
Peter Kuran
Visual Effects
Peter Kuran
Other
Kevin Kutchaver
Photography
Thomas Lofaro
Assistant Director
David Loughery
Screenplay
Edward Manning
Animator
Barbara Martin
Technical Advisor
Francesca Maxwell
Makeup
Karl Miller
Animal Trainer
Charles Paley
Music Editor
Dennis Pies
Special Effects
Johanna Ray
Casting
Craig Reardon
Other
Craig Reardon
Special Effects
R J Robertson
Rotoscope Animator
Ben Roscolone
Key Grip
Joseph Ruben
Screenplay
Chuck Russell
Associate Producer
Chuck Russell
Screenplay
Clifford Searcy
Art Director
Jeff Staggs
Art Director
David Stone
Sound Editor
Ken Sweet
Sound Editor
Cami Dempsey Taylor
Production Associate
Richard F. Taylor
Special Effects
Richard F. Taylor
Other
Allen Terry
Construction
Jerry Tokofsky
Coproducer
Susumu Tokunow
Sound
Brian Tufano
Director Of Photography
Susan K Turner
Miniatures
David Lewis Yewdall
Sound Editor
Kathy Zatarga
Script Supervisor
Stanley R Zupnik
Executive Producer
Paul Zydel
Adr Mixer
Videos
Movie Clip
Film Details
MPAA Rating
Genre
Horror/Science-Fiction
Action
Adventure
Thriller
Release Date
1984
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 35m
Articles
Dreamscape
Science fiction dabbles in political paranoia in this intriguing thriller. Dennis Quaid stars as a young psychic helping scientists research dream states. When government agent Christopher Plummer hijacks the project, Quaid has to enter president Eddie Albert's dreams to save him from an assassination plot. Twentieth Century-Fox started with an outline by science-fiction legend Roger Zelazny inspired by his story "He Who Shapes" and his novel The Dream Master. Since they assigned another writer, David Loughery, to do the screen treatment, Zelazny was never credited (he has denied rumors that he deliberately removed his name from the project). Critics and fans were charmed by the film's light tone, particularly as embodied in Quaid's deft performance as the psychic adventurer. The film also benefited greatly from Maurice Jarre's score. Although best known for his symphonic music for such David Lean epics as Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965), Jarre insisted on using only electronic music for Dreamscape, arguing it better suited the film's tone. Another highlight includes the impressive designs by Clifford Searcy and Jeff Staggs, which made the dream scenes distinctive and appropriately unsettling.
By Frank Miller
By Frank Miller
Dreamscape
Science fiction dabbles in political paranoia in this intriguing thriller. Dennis Quaid stars as a young psychic helping scientists research dream states. When government agent Christopher Plummer hijacks the project, Quaid has to enter president Eddie Albert's dreams to save him from an assassination plot. Twentieth Century-Fox started with an outline by science-fiction legend Roger Zelazny inspired by his story "He Who Shapes" and his novel The Dream Master. Since they assigned another writer, David Loughery, to do the screen treatment, Zelazny was never credited (he has denied rumors that he deliberately removed his name from the project). Critics and fans were charmed by the film's light tone, particularly as embodied in Quaid's deft performance as the psychic adventurer. The film also benefited greatly from Maurice Jarre's score. Although best known for his symphonic music for such David Lean epics as Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965), Jarre insisted on using only electronic music for Dreamscape, arguing it better suited the film's tone. Another highlight includes the impressive designs by Clifford Searcy and Jeff Staggs, which made the dream scenes distinctive and appropriately unsettling.
By Frank Miller
Eddie Albert (1906-2005)
The son of a real estate agent, Albert was born Edward Albert Heimberger in Rock Island, Ill., on April 22, 1906. His family relocated to Minneapolis when he was still an infant. Long entralled by theatre, he studied drama at the University of Minnesota. After years of developing his acting chops in touring companies, summer stock and a stint with a Mexican circus, he signed a contract with Warner Bros. and made his film debut in Brother Rat (1938). Although hardly a stellar early film career, he made some pleasant B-pictures, playing slap happy youths in Brother Rat and a Baby (1940), and The Wagons Roll at Night (1941).
His career was interrupted for military service for World War II, and after his stint (1942-45), he came back and developed a stronger, more mature screen image: Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); Carrie (1952); his Oscar® nominated turn as the Bohemian photographer friend of Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday (1953); a charming Ali Hakim in Oklahoma (1955); and to many critics, his finest hour as an actor, when he was cast unnervingly against type as a cowardly military officer whose lack of commitment to his troops results in their deaths in Attack! (1956).
As he settled into middle-age, Albert discovered belated fame when he made the move to Hooterville. For six seasons (1965-71), television viewers loved Eddie Albert as Oliver Wendal Douglas, the bemused city slicker who, along with his charming wife Lisa (Eva Gabor), takes a chance on buying a farm in the country and dealing with all the strange characters that come along their way. Of course, I'm talking about Green Acres. If he did nothing else, Alberts proved he could be a stalwart straight man in the most inane situations, and pull it off with grace.
After the run of Green Acres, Albert found two of his best roles in the late stages of his career that once again cast him against his genial, good-natured persona: the fiercly overprotective father of Cybill Shepherd in The Heartbreak Kid (1972), for which he earned his second Oscar® nomination; and the sadistic warden in Robert Aldrich's raucous gridiron comedy The Longest Yard (1974). Soon, Albert was in demand again, and he had another hit series, playing a retired police officer who partners with a retired con artist (Robert Wagner) to form a detective agency in Switch (1975-78).
The good roles slowed down slightly by the dawn of the '80s, both film: The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979), How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980), Take This Job and Shove It (1981); and television: Highway to Heaven, Murder, She Wrote, Thirtysomething, offered him little in the way of expansion. Yet, Albert spent his golden years in a most admirable fashion, he became something of activist for world health and pollution issues throughout the latter stages of his life. It is widely acknowledged that International Earth Day (April 22) is honored on his birthday for his tireless work on environemental matters. Albert was married to famed hispanic actress Margo (1945-85) until her death, and is survived by his son, actor Edward Albert, a daughter, and two granddaughters.
by Michael T. Toole
Eddie Albert (1906-2005)
Eddie Albert, a versatile film and television actor whose career spanned over seven decades, and who will forever be cherished by pop culture purists for his role as Oliver Douglas, that Manhattan attorney who sought pleasures from the simple life when he bought a rundown farm in the long-running sitcom Green Acres, died of pneummonia on May 26, at his Pacific Palisades home. He was 99.
The son of a real estate agent, Albert was born Edward Albert Heimberger in Rock Island, Ill., on April 22, 1906. His family relocated to Minneapolis when he was still an infant. Long entralled by theatre, he studied drama at the University of Minnesota. After years of developing his acting chops in touring companies, summer stock and a stint with a Mexican circus, he signed a contract with Warner Bros. and made his film debut in Brother Rat (1938).
Although hardly a stellar early film career, he made some pleasant B-pictures, playing slap happy youths in Brother Rat and a Baby (1940), and The Wagons Roll at Night (1941).
His career was interrupted for military service for World War II, and after his stint (1942-45), he came back and developed a stronger, more mature screen
image: Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); Carrie (1952); his Oscar® nominated turn as the Bohemian photographer friend of Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday (1953); a charming Ali Hakim in Oklahoma (1955); and to many critics, his finest hour as an actor, when he was cast unnervingly against type as a cowardly military officer whose lack of commitment to his troops results in their deaths in Attack! (1956).
As he settled into middle-age, Albert discovered belated fame when he made the move to Hooterville.
For six seasons (1965-71), television viewers loved Eddie Albert as Oliver Wendal Douglas, the bemused city slicker who, along with his charming wife Lisa (Eva Gabor), takes a chance on buying a farm in the country and dealing with all the strange characters that come along their way. Of course, I'm talking about Green Acres. If he did nothing else, Alberts proved he could be a stalwart straight man in the most inane situations, and pull it off with grace.
After the run of Green Acres, Albert found two of his best roles in the late stages of his career that once again cast him against his genial, good-natured persona: the fiercly overprotective father of Cybill Shepherd in The Heartbreak Kid (1972), for which he earned his second Oscar® nomination; and the sadistic warden in Robert Aldrich's raucous gridiron comedy The Longest Yard (1974). Soon, Albert was in demand again, and he had another hit series, playing a retired police officer who partners with a retired con artist (Robert Wagner) to form a detective agency in Switch (1975-78).
The good roles slowed down slightly by the dawn of the '80s, both film: The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979), How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980), Take This Job and Shove It (1981); and
television: Highway to Heaven, Murder, She Wrote, Thirtysomething, offered him little in the way of expansion. Yet, Albert spent his golden years in a most admirable fashion, he became something of activist for world health and pollution issues throughout the latter stages of his life. It is widely acknowledged that International Earth Day (April 22) is honored on his birthday for his tireless work on environemental matters. Albert was married to famed hispanic actress Margo (1945-85) until her death, and is survived by his son, actor Edward Albert, a daughter, and two granddaughters.
by Michael T. Toole
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Released in United States August 1984
Released in United States Summer August 1, 1984
Completed shooting December 1983.
Released in United States August 1984
Released in United States Summer August 1, 1984
