Dreamscape

Dreamscape is a 1984 American dark science-fiction adventure film starring Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Kate Capshaw and Christopher Plummer.

A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people’s dreams, with some mechanical help. Alex Gardner (Quaid) is recruited by a government agency to help cure the President of the United States of his nightmares about nuclear war but becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.

The atmospheric electronic music score is by French composer Maurice Jarre, the father of Jean-Michel Jarre.

Dreamscape was released on August 15, 1984. The film was a box office success grossing 12.1 million dollars on a 6 million dollar budget. This was the second film released to movie theaters that was rated PG-13 under the new MPAA ratings guidelines, following Red Dawn, which had come out five days prior. It had mainly positive reviews and has since become a cult classic but isn’t a well known movie.