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Dreamcatcher

MPA Rating: R-Rating (MPA)

for violence, gore and language.

Moral Rating:

not reviewed

Moviemaking Quality:

Primary Audience:

Adults

Genre:

Suspense Horror

Length:

2 hr. 16 min.

Year of Release:

2003

Starring: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant | Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan | Produced by: Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun | Written by: William Goldman, Lawrence Kasdan, Stephen King | Distributor: Castle Rock

Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “Dreamcatcher”, based on Stephen King’s best-selling novel, tells of four young friends who perform a heroic act and are changed forever by the uncanny powers they gain in return. Years later the friends, now men, are on a hunting trip in the Maine woods when they are overtaken by… a vicious storm in which something much more ominous moves. In the end, the friends confront an unparalleled horror, with the fate of the world in the balance.

Negative—…This is a truly stupid, disgusting film… There’s no reason on God’s green earth to see this movie…

Michael Medved, The Michael Medved Show

Negative—I took my 16-year-old son and his 17-year-old friend to see this movie thinking it would be a thriller. I got so uncomfortable in the theatre because of the naked women and foul language that we walked out midway through. I had no desire to find out what happened in the end, although the boys were disappointed to have to leave because their curiosity was piqued. Sorry I wasted my money.
My Ratings: [Very Offensive / 2]

E. Mudge, age 54

Negative—This movie features sci-fi fun with the normal immoral reality found in in a rated R world. It was a bloody movie at times, but the violence was not as graphic as it was gorey. The extra human powers in the movie were not cultic but extraterestrial, so I can’t give it a bad grade there.
My Ratings: [Very Offensive / 3]

Val Scott, age 34