In Dreams (1999)

Interesting facts

• Filmed in: California, New Mexico, Mexico, New Hampshire, and North Carolina

In Dreams is a 1999 American psychological thriller film directed by Neil Jordan. It is an adaptation of the novel Doll's Eyes (1993) by Bari Wood. The film stars Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr., Aidan Quinn, and Stephen Rea. Its screenplay was co-written by Jordan and screenwriter Bruce Robinson. Filming took place at various locations throughout New England as well as on the Baja California Peninsula.

Production

The film is ostensibly based on the 1993 novel Doll's Eyes, by Bari Wood, even though the finished film and screenplay bear practically no resemblance at all to the book, with the exception of the protagonist being a well-to-do woman who abhors her psychic abilities, which put her in contact with a serial killer to whom she becomes mentally linked. The project originated as a script titled Blue Vision, written by Bruce Robinson.

Filming took place between August 1997 and December 1997. It was shot at multiple locations in New England, including several Massachusetts cities: Northampton (at the Northampton State Hospital and Smith College), Southampton, Northfield, and Florence. Additional photography took place at the Wentworth by the Sea in New Castle, New Hampshire.

In Dreams was a collaboration between Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures, both companies Steven Spielberg was involved with. When the film began shooting, DreamWorks still hadn't released any films yet, although by the time it wrapped they had released their inaugural film The Peacemaker, which was moderately successful. Actress Annette Bening collaborated with DreamWorks again in late 1998, for the Oscar-winning film American Beauty.

Cinematographer Darius Khondji applied filters on the camera lenses to achieve lush accents on the film's autumnal imagery, noted by critic Nick Pinkerton as "hysterical and hyper-real."

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