![]() ![]() But Kasdan makes King’s chancy proposition work, and the movie is all the richer for it. Like aliens and ESP - they’re kinda at opposite ends of the speculative spectrum, and you wouldn’t necessarily expect them to sit nicely next to each other… too much potential for oogy-boogey silliness. ![]() There’s a lot going on here, disparate stuff that a lot of geeks who’d normally be into these concepts separately might say don’t “belong” together. Mumford, a genial little dramedy about secrets and lies, took a few unexpected turns and made them work, and Kasdan puts that same talent - the ability to make the unlikely seem inevitable - to good use here. Lawrence Kasdan - who adapted King’s book with William Goldman ( Hearts in Atlantis) and directed, too - is responsible for one of my favorite underrated movies of the last few years. It’s not classic King, but even at his worst, he’s still pretty damn good. And it’s as compelling and confounding and compulsively enjoyable as any of King’s writings. Dreamcatcher is a veritable stew of all the things King loves: preternaturally talented kids, ESP, bodily invasion, childhood friendships cemented by traumatic experience, secret government projects, all drenched in really gross and gory entrails. ![]() Even if you didn’t know this was a Stephen King thing, you’d know it was King. ![]()
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