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Dream Lover is a american film of genre Drama directed by Nicholas Kazan released in USA on 11 november 1994 with James Spader
Dream Lover (1993)
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Add to a movie listDream Lover is a 1993 American erotic drama film written and directed by Nicholas Kazan and starring James Spader and Mädchen Amick. The original music score was composed by Christopher Young.
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The movie opens on divorce proceedings involving Ray Reardon (James Spader), a successful architect, and his first wife. Shortly after their divorce, he agrees to go to a gallery opening to meet a woman that his obnoxious friend, Norman (Larry Miller), sets him up with. While he is there, he embarrasses himself by bumping into a woman (Amick), making her spill wine on herself. She wastes no time verbally abusing him. A week later, he runs into the woman, named Lena Mathers, at the supermarket. She apologizes for her behavior and the two go to dinner. They have sex the next day, marry shortly thereafter and become parents.Actors
James Spader
(Ray Reardon)
Mädchen Amick
(Lena Mathers)
Fredric Lehne
(Larry)
Larry Miller
(Norman)
Bess Armstrong
(Elaine)
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