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At a government facility where psychics can enter people’s dreams, a wave of deadly nightmares begins claiming lives. Once the President of the United States is affected, two psychics square off — one wanting to save the president, and one wanting to continue his killing spree. Despite a worthy cast that includes Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, and Christopher Plummer, Dreamscape never hits its stride. Without a strong through-line, the movie is largely inert, wasting too much time on miscellaneous dream-adventures and tangential subplots (including an oh-so ho-hum romance). The climax, where Quaid enters the president’s dream to help him combat a ‘dream assassin,’ lacks pizzazz. There’s a nice dream seduction between Quaid and Kate Capshaw, and David Patrick Kelly plays a nice villain, but there’s otherwise little to recommend in this ambitious, scatter-shot fantasy.