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  • Actors: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant
  • Directors: Lawrence Kasdan
  • Writers: Lawrence Kasdan, Stephen King, William Goldman
  • Producers: Bruce Berman, Casey Grant, Charles Okun, Elizabeth Dollarhide
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 30 Sep 2003
  • Run Time: 134 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000AMRUL
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 114,917 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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One of Stephen King's most shapeless, all-but-the-kitchen-sink novels, Dreamcatcher is wrestled by overqualified director-writer Lawrence Kasdan and cowriter William Goldman into an equally shapeless, slightly more entertaining big-budget schlock movie. Mind-reading psychiatrist Thomas Jane, back-from-the-dead road accident victim Damian Lewis, slacker toothpick-chewer Jason Lee and psychic car salesman Timothy Olyphant are King-style thirtysomething buddies who might also evoke Kasdan's The Big Chill, bonded forever by a flashback psychic experience that logically took place in 1983 but with the Stand By Me haircuts, music and milieu of King's own childhood.

On a weekend retreat in the snowy Maine woods, the quartet run into an alien incursion that begins ominously, with animals fleeing the forest but then throws in enough phenomena for a whole season of The X-Files with leftovers that could kit out a video nasty, notably toothy worm parasites memorably named "shit weasels" and a giant ET that turns to red powder and possesses Lewis. Mad militarist Morgan Freeman shows up and claustrophobic lost-in-the-woods business is diluted by a helicopter attack on a downed flying saucer and an internment camp for red-blotched infectees, while the plot boils down to something as simple as a race to prevent a worm from being dropped in a reservoir (which will end the world).

On a scene-by-scene basis, it's entertaining and creepy so long as you don't think too hard about details, like why someone charged with trapping an alien by sitting clamped on the toilet lid would risk reaching down onto a bloody floor to get a toothpick or why the aliens didn't just land by the reservoir in the first place. --Kim Newman

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable film, goes from the strange to the absurd!, 24 May 2003
Firstly, i must stress that i have read the book 'Dreamcatcher' by Stephen King prior to watching the film, so i feel that i was in a better position to understand certain parts of the film, as it can be confusing in parts which i will explain. Two of the major critics of this film was:
1. The poor special effects, and,
2. The way in which some events in the film appeared to have no logic as to how they started

I personally, along with my friends who i watched the film with thought that the special effects were of a very high quality; the aliens were made to feel very menacing and were were as realistic was you could hope for. If you had read the book then it is apperent that some important events had been cut in between scenes,, in way this is understandable as the film would simply have been too long, however i can understand the frustration from non readers of the book as they would not be able to fill these events in their minds.
. All the other actors represented themselves very well.

Ultimately, it is the sort of film that you should go and see if you're looking for an entertaining way to spend a few hours, not if your looking for a film that is going to keep you thinking. Just keep an open mind and it will be entertaining, as well as scary in some parts. By the way, i consider myself to have a fairly good knowledge of films and enjoy a wide range of movies and i do feel that this film did not deserve the slating that it recieved in the media.

Watch it and see for yourselves!

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36 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars a crap from beginning to end..., 2 Mar 2007
By H. Serkan SILAHSOR (Ankara, TURKEY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dreamcatcher [DVD] [2003] (DVD)
The worst Stephen King adaptation I have ever seen. The tripe begins with the story which is totally "AWESOME": Four friends with some kind of psychic bond meet up in the forest for annual northern retreat, trapped by the snow and get attacked by aliens. Then serpent-like creatures with hundreds of teeth come out of people's rears and the unsuspecting EARTHLINGS are infected by two-foot long alien tadpoles and infection causes people to belch and fart. NO KIDDING... we learn it from the movie. Also, the aliens hellbent on taking over the world by spreading their unwholesome spawn and a mad military man in the form of Morgan Freeman. Yet not over, the story is EMBELLISHED with unnecessary amounts of blood and gore. Wow! what an ingenious fantasy for a $70-million-budget prospective blockbuster!!!

Apart from this "UNBELIEVABLE" story, the movie suffers from horrible script, bad acting, shallow characters and lousy F/X. The result: B-grade sci-fi flick with no tension, no horror, no suspense - a complete waste of 2 hours of your life. Even the farting is not scary itself...

I haven't read the novel, so I don't know if the problems are with the book or the screenplay. Some viewers say that the book is decent and problem is about the film-making. I have to admit that the main trouble with translating a King book to screen is character development and tension. What works in a 300-page book does not work in a 2-hour movie. So, THE NAME OF THE GAME: the competence of the screenwriter and the director...

I think I've sufficiently expressed my opinion, but to solidify my feelings I sum it up in three short characters: 0/5!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Five stars - for all the wrong reasons!, 20 Jul 2005
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dreamcatcher [DVD] [2003] (DVD)
Dreamcatcher almost gives 'Lifeforce' a run for its money in the greatest unintentional comedy ever made stakes. I had to rewind whole chunks of the movie to check my eyes weren't deceiving me: oh, if only I hadn't had the flu the one week it played over here - to have seen this one with an audience! After a solid opening its descent into insanity is so rapid and so unashamed that you could never mistake it for a good film but still end up loving it more than many an undisputed classic because it's just so much fun. At times you even find yourself wondering if Lawrence Kasdan made it as a drunken dare. If so, all I can say is get that man another dozen drinks, and fast!

This fantastic (in every sense) movie has everything - Ripleys and s**tweasels, Damian Lewis doing a comedy English accent whenever he's possessed by the alien 'Mr Grey', Morgan Freeman with crazy giant white eyebrows that even David Hemmings would have envied waxing lyrical about John Wayne's gun, Tom Sizemore seeing those aliens long before the effects boys put them in the picture, a s**tweasel trying to bite Timothy Olyphant's dick off, the toilet scene from hell and more farting in a single motion picture since Blazing Saddles. The only thing that was missing was the gratuitous nudity from Mathilda May, but hey, maybe they're holding that back for the sequel. I am truly content to live in a world where multinational corporations spend tens of millions of dollars on such films. Definitely the most joyful and entertaining film I've seen this year.

The DVD extras are nothing to write home about, but do watch out for one great outtake at the end of the deleted scenes section.
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1.0 out of 5 stars WHAT THE FECK IS GOING ON?
First of all, I dunno what fim the others were watching when they gave it 3 stars or more but this is total pish. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Give it a try
Maybe because of my advanced years I tend to be a little bit harder to please when it comes to horror, shocks, etc. Read more
Published 18 months ago by G. Hurst

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst DVD i own.
I bought this a part of a buy 3 for £15 or something similiar a few years ago, i didnt really want it but i had two good films i wanted so i shoved this in to make up the numbers,... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Jayy Mannon

3.0 out of 5 stars OK BUT NOTHING SPECIAL
Years after being apart, childhood friends Dr. Henry Devlin, (Thomas Jane) Joe 'Beaver' Clarenden, (Jason Lee) Gary 'Jonesy' Jones, (Damien Lewis) Pete Moore, (Timothy Olphant)... Read more
Published 20 months ago by stuart

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst movie I've ever seen
I love Stephen King movies, Stand By Me, IT, The Stand, Pet Sem, these are all top class movies, but this one???? What a load of rubbish!! It's pointless and stupid. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Ms. S. Smith

4.0 out of 5 stars Mad filem
Quite stoopid really and not worth buying it. However, my fondness of it stems from the scenes of bottom birthing. The ET's come out of the victims arses. Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2007 by J. Hewitt

2.0 out of 5 stars Sadly disappointing
I loved the book when I read it and when I found out that they had made a film of it I was quite excited. Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2007 by D. Hateley

3.0 out of 5 stars Grossness will never be a fine art
The book was magical though gross. The film is gross but not magical. The novel was long, subtle, full of details and developments. Read more
Published on 20 Dec 2006 by Jacques COULARDEAU

5.0 out of 5 stars Very much like the book.
Sometimes, after reading the book and you watch the movie it can be disappointing. Not so with 'Dreamcatcher. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2006 by Alan Burridge

2.0 out of 5 stars Plays like a really bad April Fool's joke
We've all seen Hollywood ruin some of Stephen King's most engrossing novels, but we can't blame Hollywood too much for this cinematic disaster. Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2006 by Daniel Jolley

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