![]() Four male friends since childhood ("Stand By Me," "It") who share telepathy, dreams ("It," "The Shining") and a heroic retarded friend ("The Stand's" Tom Cullen) deal with contagion and military containment ("The Stand" again) caused by aliens seeking human hosts ("Tommyknockers"). Judging by director Lawrence Kasdan ("Mumford") and cowriter William Goldman's ("Misery") adaptation, "Dreamcatcher" is kitchen-sink King with a broken garbage disposal. ![]() I never read "Dreamcatcher," as it sounded like an unappealing hodgepodge of previous King themes. Duddits's gift also is cause for nightmares, which they ward off with the Indian amulet Duddits taught them to make, the "Dreamcatcher."Īs Stephen King recovered from a near-fatal car accident, he wrote "Dreamcatcher," bestowing his own fate on his central character Jonesy. In return the mysterious Duddits bestowed the gift of telepathy on the four, who, as adults, meet yearly for a hunting trip in the Maine woods. ![]() Jonesy (Damian Lewis, HBO's "Band of Brothers"), Henry (Thomas Jane, "The Sweetest Thing"), Pete (Timothy Olyphant, "The Safety of Objects") and Beaver (Jason Lee, "Big Trouble") were already tight friends before they banded together to save a frightened, mentally retarded young boy, Duddits (Donnie Wahlberg, "The Sixth Sense"), from older bullies. ![]()
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