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14 year old Anna (Kayden Bryce) has had weird dreams for years, but now
one of her dreams, about a bank robbery where somebody got shot, became
reality. But when she tells her parents (Kristy Swanson, Joe Kurak) they
don't believe her, which of course only enhances her near-trauma. And
feeling as responsible as she does for what happened in her dream, she
refuses to sleep from here on. Only her best friend Joshua (Copeland
Diver), who has lost his sister (Brynlee Cones) a few years back and has
never come over it, understands what she must go through - but encourages
her to take her parents' advice to go to treatment. Thing is, the
institution she's sent to, run by one Doctor Jenkins (Dean Cain),
resembles more an asylum than anything else, and she feels that neither
does she fit in with the other patients, nor does the good doctor
understand her issues. It seems the only guy who understands her is the
place's Native American janitor Takota (Eugene Brave Rock), who convinces
her to treat her prophetic dreams as a gift rather than a burden. But then
she has a dream of her mother having a car accident that kills both her
little siblings (Lexi Patrick, Kody Franz) - and naturally she wants to
save them at whatever cost. But she's stuck in the institute and can't
persuade anybody to let her go, and the only one who believes her story is
Joshua - and he makes up a plan to escape the place and make it to the
scene of the accident just in time ... but in his plan there are too many
variables that might go wrong - and of course, in execution they all do
...
Now it ought to be noted up front, this was designed as a
supernatural thriller for the whole family, so one simply cannot expect
anything too hard-hitting or edgy. But within its self-imposed
limitations, Just Another Dream actually works pretty well, it's
well-structured, with all the action and suspense in the right places, and
the resolution of the whole thing is definitely one you won't see coming
(even if it's in retrospect totally worked towards). And the two young
leads are definitely capable of carrying the film, making this one very
nice piece of genre entertainment.
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