Dream With the Fishes

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Dream With the Fishes

R,

1997,

1h 37m,

Comedy

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62%

42 Reviews

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Shy, neurotic Terry (David Arquette) spends his days spying on neighbors through binoculars. One night, he decides to jump off a bridge but can't bring himself to end it all. Nick (Brad Hunt), a cocky artist with a terminal disease, arrives on the scene, and they make a pact. If Terry helps Nick live out his fantasies in his final days, Nick will pay him back by killing him. The two head out on a road trip, where they drop acid, bowl naked, open old wounds and live life on the edge.

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Dave Kehr

New York Daily News

Feb 13, 2014

2/4

Despite the emphasis on Oedipal conflict, the film expresses no desire to enter the grownup world; happiness here is associated with eternal adolescence, following the '70s (and now, apparently, '90s) ideal.

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John Hartl

Seattle Times

Feb 13, 2014

3/4

A throwback to the independent-minded, anything-goes movies that followed in the wake of Easy Rider in the early 1970s.

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Desmond Ryan

Philadelphia Inquirer

Feb 13, 2014

2.5/4

Clearly, it wishes to be different, but anyone who fondly recalls the buddy films of the '70s will find it to be more of the same.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Oct 14, 2022

That outline might sound like a recipe for cutesy inspirational schmaltz. But Dream With the Fishes was—still is—slyly funny, mordant, surprising, and ultimately touching in ways that never feel sentimental.

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Margaret Pomeranz

sbs.com.au

Feb 13, 2014

3/5

Dream With The Fishes is quite a moving but perplexing film.

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Dan Webster

Spokesman-Review (Washington)

Feb 13, 2014

3/4

Dream With the Fishes is a personal kind of story told with a sensitivity that, while not exactly Oscar-worthy, does manage to touch on feelings most mainstream films don't even admit exist.

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Finn Taylor

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David Arquette

Terry

Brad Hunt

Nick

Kathryn Erbe

Liz

Cathy Moriarty

Aunt Elise

Patrick McGaw

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Synopsis

Shy, neurotic Terry (David Arquette) spends his days spying on neighbors through binoculars. One night, he decides to jump off a bridge but can't bring himself to end it all. Nick (Brad Hunt), a cocky artist with a terminal disease, arrives on the scene, and they make a pact. If Terry helps Nick live out his fantasies in his final days, Nick will pay him back by killing him. The two head out on a road trip, where they drop acid, bowl naked, open old wounds and live life on the edge.

Director: Finn Taylor
Producer: Johnny Wow, Mitchell Stein
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Box Office (Gross USA): $556.7K
Runtime: 1h 37m
Sound Mix: Surround

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