Dream a Little Dream

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Dream a Little Dream
Directed by	Marc Rocco
Produced by	D.E. Eisenberg Marc Rocco
Written by	Daniel Jay Franklin Marc Rocco D.E. Eisenberg
Starring	Jason Robards Corey Feldman Piper Laurie Meredith Salenger Harry Dean Stanton Corey Haim
Cinematography	King Baggot
Distributed by	Vestron Video
Release date(s)	March 3, 1989
Running time	114 min.
Country	US
Language	English
Followed by	Dream a Little Dream 2
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Dream a Little Dream is a 1989 teen film directed by Marc Rocco and stars Jason Robards, Corey Feldman, Piper Laurie, Meredith Salenger, Harry Dean Stanton and Corey Haim. It was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. Released in 1,019 theaters, it accumulated $5,552,441. This is also the third film featuring the two Coreys.

The film's sequel Dream a Little Dream 2 was released in 1995.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Main Cast 3 Music 4 Trivia 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Plot summary

Bobby Keller (Corey Feldman) is a high school student who, while taking a short cut through a backyard in his neighborhood, collides with Lainie Diamond (Meredith Salenger), whom he has been obsessing over recently despite the fact she is the girlfriend of his friend Joel. At the time of the incident, an elderly man named Coleman Ettinger (Jason Robards) is performing a meditation exercise in the yard with his wife Gena (Piper Laurie), thinking that if he can enter a dream state voluntarily he will be forever young, thus being able to spend a longer life with his younger wife. However, the collision forces a body switch between characters.

Bobby wakes up in his bedroom to find Dinger (Corey Haim) and his parents asking him if he's okay, but Bobby has no idea who these people are. Coleman is trapped in Bobby Keller's body; he leaves the house to find his wife but returns when he cannot find her or make any sense of the situation. Coleman then plays the role of Bobby when he returns and just wants to go to sleep to see if his dreams will give him any clue to what happened. The real Bobby greets him, who appears to be trapped in Coleman's dream.

The real Bobby claims to know how to swap them back but feels that it's not in his best interests to do so. He warns Coleman that if he cannot fix the problem then he will lose his wife forever.

Coleman must then figure out how to switch back to his own body within a few days or forever be trapped. However, Lainie doesn't know what has happened to her as it appears that Gena Ettinger has only partially swapped with her, so Keller has little time to convince her of the real situation before she will be lost forever.

[edit] Main Cast

• Jason Robards as Coleman Ettinger
• Corey Feldman as Bobby Keller
• Corey Haim as Dinger
• Piper Laurie as Gena Ettinger
• Meredith Salenger as Lainie Diamond
• Harry Dean Stanton as Ike Baker

[edit] Music

Further information: Dream a Little Dream (soundtrack)

The soundtrack that accompanies Dream a Little Dream was one of the most popular soundtracks of the late 1980s. It was popular for its unique mix of 1980s rock and classic music. Some songs featured are "Dreams To Remember" by Otis Redding, "Into The Mystic" by Van Morrison, "Time Runs Wild" by Danny Wilde, "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" by R.E.M., "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" by Timbuk 3, and Michael Damian's "Rock On" where its video clip actually had Corey Feldman, Meredith Salenger and Corey Haim in it.

Mickey Thomas, the lead singer of the popular '80s band Starship, recorded the film's titled theme song and its duet version with Mel Torme for the soundtrack. The duet version also plays at the end of the film. Thomas appears as the teacher Mr. Pattison in this film.

[edit] Trivia

• On the wall of Keller's room there is a poster for the film The Lost Boys (1987). Both Corey Feldman and Corey Haim starred in The Lost Boys.
• Original Working Title was Long Before Tomorrow.
• Four days before filming, Corey Haim broke his leg and Dinger's character had to be rewritten to include the injury. While his actual cast was removed during filming, he had to wear a fake one for the remainder of the production. In the movie Dinger says that his mother hit him with her car, which is what really happened to Haim.
• Director Marc Rocco's father, Alex Rocco (played the part of Moe Greene in The Godfather) plays the part of Gus Keller in the film.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Dream a Little Dream at the Internet Movie Database
• Dream a Little Dream at All Movie Guide
• Dream a Little Dream at Rotten Tomatoes
• Dream a Little Dream at Box Office Mojo