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Dream House is a 2011 American psychological thriller film directed by Jim Sheridan from Universal Pictures and Morgan Creek Productions, starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, and Marton Csokas.[3] It was released on September 30, 2011, in the United States and Canada and was panned by critics. It was released by Warner Bros. in international markets.

Dream House
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jim Sheridan
Written by	David Loucka
Produced by	James G. Robinson David C. Robinson Daniel Bobker Ehren Kruger
Starring	Daniel Craig Naomi Watts Rachel Weisz Marton Csokas Elias Koteas Jane Alexander
Cinematography	Caleb Deschanel
Edited by	Barbara Tulliver
Music by	John Debney
Production company	Morgan Creek Productions
Distributed by	Universal Pictures (North America) Warner Bros. Pictures (International)
Release date	September 30, 2011 (2011-09-30)
Running time	92 minutes[1]
Countries	United States Canada
Language	English
Budget	$50 million[2]
Box office	$40 million

Plot

Will Atenton (Daniel Craig), a successful editor for a New York City publishing house, quits his job to focus on writing a book while spending more time with his wife Libby (Rachel Weisz) and their young daughters, Trish and Dee Dee. The family is initially happy to live in their Fairfield County "dream house" near the forest. Soon, however, they grow uneasy because of a series of unsettling events, including one in which the children see a strange man lurking outside and another involving Will discovering teenagers gathering in the basement. It all seems to tie to a crime committed in the house five years earlier, when a man named Peter Ward apparently murdered his wife and two children and was committed to a mental hospital from which he has been recently released due to lack of evidence.

Will tries to enlist the help of the local police, but they appear unwilling to assist. He also approaches his neighbor Ann (Naomi Watts), who seems apprehensive, while her estranged husband Jack (Marton Csokas) demonstrates outright hostility toward Will. Will decides to conduct his own investigations, visiting the facility where Peter Ward was housed, and discovers that he actually is Peter Ward.

During the attack that claimed the lives of his wife and daughters, Peter was shot in the head, so he has no memories of the murders. In order to cope with the grief, he fabricated a delusion in which his family is still alive and created a new identity for himself based on his inpatient ID band "W1-1L 8-10-10". Once dismissed, Peter moved back to his abandoned house, which is now condemned and covered in graffiti, but in Peter's mind, it is still unspoiled and inhabited by Libby and the girls.

Peter is forcibly removed from the dilapidated house by authorities and is taken in by Ann, who believes in his innocence and used to visit him at the facility. She encourages Peter to move on, but Peter eventually returns to the house to confront his memories, ultimately realizing that he did not kill his wife and children; it was a local man named Boyce (Elias Koteas), who broke into the house and shot Peter's family. Libby, while aiming at Boyce, inadvertently shot Peter.

Peter and Ann are suddenly attacked by Jack, who reveals that he had hired Boyce to kill Ann five years earlier, in retaliation for divorcing him and to obtain full custody of their daughter, Chloe. However, Boyce went to the wrong house and mistakenly killed Peter's family. Aided by Boyce, Jack decides to kill Ann himself and set the house on fire, framing Peter for her murder. He also shoots Boyce, to eliminate him as a witness. As Jack ignites a fire, Peter overpowers Jack and saves Ann with the help of his wife Libby who is revealed to be a spirit, as are their daughters, and not a mental projection. Boyce douses Jack in gasoline before being killed, this results in Jack burning to death when he tries to escape through the flames.

While Ann and Chloe reunite, Peter says goodbye to the spirits of his wife and children.

Some time later, we see that Peter has returned to New York and published a best-selling book called Dream House, in which he recounts his tragic experiences.

Cast

Production

Director Jim Sheridan reportedly clashed with Morgan Creek's James G. Robinson constantly on the set over the shape of the script and production of the film.[4] According to the Los Angeles Times, Sheridan tried to take his name off the film after being unhappy with it and his relationship with Morgan Creek Productions.[5]

Reportedly Sheridan, Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz disliked the final cut of the film.[6] The trailer, cut by Morgan Creek Productions, was criticised for revealing the film's main plot twist.[6][7]

Soundtrack

Dream House: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by John Debney
Released	11 October 2011
Recorded	2011
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	56:47
Label	Varèse Sarabande
Producer	Stephanie Pereida

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Filmtracks	link

The score to Dream House was composed by John Debney and conducted by Robert Ziegler. Christian Clemmensen, reviewer of Filmtracks.com, gave it four out of five stars, declaring it "among the biggest surprises of 2011" and stating, "It's not clear how badly Debney's work for Dream House was butchered by the studio's frantic last minute attempts to make the film presentable, but Debney's contribution does feature a cohesive flow of development that is, at least on album, a worthy souvenir from this otherwise messy situation."[8] The soundtrack was released on 11 October 2011 and features 15 tracks of score at a running time of 56 minutes.

Reception

The film was not screened in advance for critics and was critically panned. On review aggregation Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 6% based on 86 reviews, with a rating average of 3.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Dream House is punishingly slow, stuffy and way too obvious to be scary."[9] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, gives the film a score of 35 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[10] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[11]

Reboot

In 2021, it was reported that Morgan Creek Entertainment would be developing a reboot of the film.[12]

See also

• Rabbit Hole (Play)
• Rabbit Hole (Film)
• Talaash

References

• Content in this article was copied from Dream House (film) at the Universal Monsters wiki, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) (CC BY-SA 3.0) license.

External links

• Official website
• Dream House at Box Office Mojo
• Dream House at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Dream House (Film)

Dream House ist ein US-amerikanisch-kanadischer Mystery-Thriller des Regisseurs Jim Sheridan aus dem Jahr 2011. Der britische Darsteller Daniel Craig spielt darin einen Mann, der verdächtigt wird, seine Familie getötet zu haben.

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- [en] Dream House (2011 film)

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[ru] Дом грёз

«Дом грёз» (англ.  Dream House) — американский психологический триллер режиссёра Джима Шеридана, в главных ролях Дэниел Крейг, Рэйчел Вайс, Наоми Уоттс и Мартон Чокаш[1]. Мировая премьера состоялась 29 сентября 2011 года, в России — 29 сентября.

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