Film: Dream Scenario
Cast: Nicholas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Marnie McPhail, Lily Bird, Michael Cera, Dylan Baker, Tim Meadows, Dylan Gelula
Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Rating: 3.5/5 
Runtime: 104 mins

Is this film about a dream or a nightmare? This Nicholas Cage outing doesn’t slot itself in a specific genre. It’s a darkly humorous tragic-drama with touches of horror and whimsy to wind you up, as it gushes forth, fueled on pure imagination and great ideas that come good.

In a bizarre turn of events in his steadfast ordinary family life, a tenured professor, a PhD in evolutionary biology no less, Paul Mathews (Nicholas Cage) finds himself the subject of a million dreams. Literally, at first, he is stumped, his family consisting of a wife and two daughters find the whole idea intriguing and his friends and peers think of it as queer. But just when he thinks he can make the most of his unexpected, unwanted notoriety, things get out of hand. The dreams turn into nightmares and the very people who think of the bizarre occurrence as fun, turn on him. Thereafter, the timid, hapless family man finds himself forced to navigate through the minefields of his newfound stardom.