In Dreams is a 1999 psychological thriller film directed by Neil Jordan. It stars Annette Bening as a New England illustrator who begins experiencing visions of a missing child who turns out to be her own daughter; through her dreams, she begins having psychic connections to a serial killer responsible for the murder of her daughter and several other local children.
Plot[]
Claire Cooper (Bening) is a suburban housewife and mother who illustrates children's stories and is married to an airline pilot (Aidan Quinn). Her world unravels when her daughter is kidnapped and brutally murdered. Claire is haunted by her daughter's murderer, a serial killer named Vivian Thompson (Downey). She has several visions of murders he commits next. When doctors diagnose her as psychotic, Claire is committed to a mental institution. She receives a vision of Vivian kidnapping another child, so she escapes to track him down and stop him from killing again.
Cast[]
- Annette Bening as Claire Cooper
- Katie Sagona as Rebecca Cooper
- Aidan Quinn as Paul Cooper
- Robert Downey, Jr. as Vivienne Thompson
- Paul Guilfoyle as Detective Jack Kay
- Kathleen Langlois as Snow White
- Jennifer Berry as Hunter
- Amelia Claire Novotny as Prince
- Kristin Sroka as Wicked Step-Mother
- Robert Walsh as Man at School Play
- Denise Cormier as Woman at School Play
- John Fiore as Policeman
- Ken Cheeseman as Paramedic
- Dennis Boutsikaris as Doctor Stevens
- Stephen Rea as Doctor Silverman
- Margo Martindale as Nurse Floyd
- June Lewin as Kindly Nurse
- Pamela Payton-Wright as Ethel
- Krystal Benn as Ruby
- Dorothy Dwyer as Foster Mother