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From Echo Lake Productions, the Producers of “Levity,” “Thirteen Conversations About One Thing,” “Things Behind the Sun,” and recent Academy Award Winner "Tsotsi."
18 year old Audrey (Agnes Bruckner) lives with her father (John Corbett) in a remote community in the breathtakingly beautiful New Mexico desert. Though Audrey longs to go to college, she spends her days taking care of her father, who hasn’t left home since Audrey’s mother died, and her best friend Calista (Kelli Garner), who dreams of becoming Miss America but is struggling with a life-challenging illness.
The summer after Audrey graduates from high school, her world is changed forever when an attractive young man named Mookie (Justin Long) moves in next door with his mother Mary (Gina Gershon) and her fiancée, Herb (Chris Mulkey). Knowing how much Calista longs for romance, Audrey encourages Mookie to ask Calista on a date. He obliges, and he and Calista soon become a couple. Audrey, however, finds herself developing feelings for Mookie, and as these feelings grow it becomes harder and harder to her to be the dependable, selfless person that her father and best friend have always counted on her to be.
“Dreamland” is the story of a young woman who has taken care of everyone around her but ultimately learns to take care of herself. It is also the story of how those whose lives she touched must find the strength to let her go.
Beautifully shot and passionately acted, “Dreamland” is the first film for director Jason Matzner, and was written by Tom Willett. It features a stunning central performance by Agnes Bruckner (breakout star of the 2002 Sundance favorite “Blue Car”), alongside veteran actors John Corbett ("My Big fat Greek Wedding," "Sex and the City") and Gina Gershon ("Showgirls," "Bound") and rising stars Kelli Garner (“The Aviator,” “Thumbsucker”) and Justin Long (“Dodgeball,” “Herbie”).
“Two sexy, marvelously textured lead performances from emerging young stars Agnes Bruckner and Kelli Garner”
Screen Daily
“Jason Matzner's woozily romantic, gorgeously lensed directorial debut about a trailer park love triangle seems to unspool in a dream of its own.”
Variety
“This is a hell of a first movie. John Corbett gives an especially good… performance as Henry, and Agnes Bruckner cements the movie effectively as Audrey with her natural internal complexity.”
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