I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

From my favorite movies..

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

As far as I know, 'Dream a Little Dream' was the last gasp to try and breath life into the ' body switch comedies', you know, those movies where a kid and an adult switch minds and one gets to be the other and suffer their inane problems. Sometimes it works, I liked that old Disney comedy 'Freaky Friday' with Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris and I liked Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage in 'Vice Versa'. On the other end of the spectrum is this insufferable mess which I feel at a loss to explain but here goes: Jason Robards plays a nice old man whose only gripe is that kids keep trespassing through his yard. He and his wife (Piper Laurie) have a theory that one can transfer his or her mind into someone else and live in their body. On his lawn while trying out his experiment he is hit by a bicycle driven by Bobby Keller (Corey Feldman) and the obvious happens. Feldman spends the rest of the movie as Robards and vice versa.The problem is that not for one second can you believe that Robards is occupying his body. He walks like Corey Feldman, talks like Corey Feldman so the effect is lost on us. I had a hard time trying to notice because I couldn't stop looking at Feldman's outfit which look as if he's late for band practice or Michael Jackson dress up day.As for Robards wife, the movie wastes a lot of time and half-baked theology on how her mind has drifted off and is in danger of falling into the Q collective or some such. The movie halfway explains that idea only to pull the rug out from under it and explains that it was all a joke so that the screenwriter won't have to think of a way to get her back.'Dream a Little Dream' drums up a lot of impossibly complicated ideas but is too lazy a movie to work them out. When the screenplay gets too complicated, the soundtrack starts booming some irritating rock song to pad the rest of the scene. And just to show you how desperate the Direct-to-Video market is: There's a sequel.

What is "Dream A Little Dream"? No one knows, but somebody in the late 80's seemed to have had the following idea: let's make another movie with the two Coreys about something that kids love to see at the moment. Yeah, let's make a body swapping movie or something. We could put in some rad clothes and hip music. To top it all off we'll have Jason Robards in a side role, how about that?Well, the result is a mess as you can image. The story is practically non-existent. Corey Feldman - whose acting is horrid in this movie, by the way - has to fret for something because of something that we are not exactly sure about. As we're trying to figure out why we're too stupid to figure out what's going on, we are constantly bombarded with a soundtrack of old and then current songs about "Dreams".It's kinda fun and intriguing to watch such a train wreck. The characters are less than believable, the fashion is the worst you've ever seen in a movie. You've never seen a movie like this at all. It's a rare member of the romance/sci-fi/mind swapping/coming of age/drama/comedy-genre. Or something.Lovers of the obscure, this is your movie!

If you're watching this movie with the expectations of Pretty in Pink or License to Drive, don't. It's nothing like those films, or any other quirky 80's films. Feldman was pretty pathetic in the starring role, and I can't even imagine why Jason Robards would waste his time with this film. The concept isn't hard to understand- This isn't Donnie Darko. It's pretty simple, actually. This film was just another excuse to get the Corey's back together & to use as many bad songs as possible. The music was poorly chosen & very distracting. It just didn't fit. This film is simply crap.Don't even bother.

Great coming of age vehicle for Corey Feldman, who once again shows the potential he did in "Stand By Me" earlier in his career. Bobby Keller (Feldman) is a teenager with unusual problems. When an older man who lives down the street (Robards) tries a transcendental experiment in order to extend the lives of him and his skeptical but humoring wife (Laurie), they quite literally become trapped in the bodies of Keller and his dream girl, Lainie (Salenger).Bobby must figure out how to switch back to his own body by a certain deadline or be trapped. Worse is the fact that Lainie doesn't know what's happened to her, so Bobby has little time to win her and convince her of their predicament before she will be lost forever. Although Haim is annoying (as usual) as Feldman's buddy "Dinger" (puh-leez), the movie has some funny moments (like when Robards' character is trying to teach Feldman's how to be suave and Feldman is trying to teach Robards how to be inconspicuous) and some sweet ones, (like when Bobby is trying to win Lainie's heart). Although some of it may be too precocious for the younger kids (and too dorky for the more sophsticated older teens), I found it to be fun and nostalgic. Great movie for a rainy day.