In My Dreams

In My Dream is a different take on your typical romance movie. Nick is an archietect who works for a disagreeable boss but dreams to start his own firm. Natalie runs her mother's restaurant, but she is struggling to get any customers. They both make a wish in the town fountain at the same time, and that night they dream about eachother. However, they doubt each other exists aand they only have seven times to dream about each other before the magic fades. Katharine McPhee and Mike Vogel were fantastic as Natalie and Nick. I also though Jessalyn Wanlim as Natalie's coworker and Joe Massingill as Nick's co-worker were great. The movie is worth watching if you are looking for something that is a little bit different.

This film has a very romantic premise. Two strangers, draftsman Nick and restaurant owner Natalie, begin seeing each other in their dreams. They walk, talk and get to know one another all the while dreaming night after night. Then Nick's ex comes back in to his life and interrupts him after midnight, disrupting their nightly dream visit. As a consequence, Natalie wonders alone in the dream. In their real lives both Natalie and Nick are trying to make some changes professionally. Nick enters a contest for the city to design a bridge and Natalie starts making positive improvements to the restaurant she inherited (loosing the opera, changing the name, tweaking the recipes, etc.). When her dream lover doesn't show up overnight, Natalie asks the new Italian chef out on a date. Nick is not really going back to his ex, Jessa and decides to make it an early night...but now he is alone in the dream while Natalie is out with the Italian discovering that limoncello tastes better in a dessert than as a drink. The Italian, Mario, tells her that their mothers (who were beat friends) thought that their children were meant to be together. Back to dreamland...both participants felt like the other made them feel like anything is possible. And maybe that was the purpose of the dreams...or was it? "And if in the end you really love him, the spirit of the stones will make him real." "That's pure fantasy."-Natalie Sweet and romantic, this seemed to build on a very romantic notion...a fantasy that everyone would want to get behind...enchanted stones from a castle.

I think this has the workings of a great romance movie, but the ending feels a bit incomplete. I wish they'd have shown more scenes of the couple together in reality, so that we have a sense of how they fit in with each others' families and friends. The whole selling point is that they're perfect for each other, so it'd have been great if we saw how that works compared to before they met. Other than that, I like the premise although it's everything you would expect in a Hallmark movie. Katherine McPhee and Mike Vogel really brought their characters to life, even if there wasn't much to work with from the start. 10/10 chemistry, but the movie overall gets 7/10, because it's just a good romantic film and not a great one.

This is a very late review, however I found this movie to be a very nice departure to the Hallmark cookie cutter formula. Perhaps that is why it is one I never saw before and it is so different.

I really liked this movie. When it's romantic, it's very romantic. Imagine meeting your perfect match in a dream, hoping against hope that this wonderful person is actually a person in real life and not just a dream. The scenes of Nick and Natalie in their dreams have this wonderful, ethereal quality to them. It's the same kind of feeling you had in movies like The Lake House, or Somewhere in Time. You feel pure magic when the two of them are together in their dream world, and you really want them to find each other in real life. If I had to complain about something, it would be that they offered almost no details about each other that would have allowed them to track each other down in the real world. They gave no full names, no addresses, no phone numbers, nothing! It strains credulity that they wouldn't do this, but, of course, the movie would have been over in 5 minutes if they had. If I had been the screenwriter, I would have handled things differently. Maybe they could have been on the other side of the country from each other. That would require a true leap of faith for one of them to fly across the country to try to find the other. Or maybe the phone number Natalie gives Nick could be a land line, which, by chance, gets answered by Natalie's ex-boyfriend, who still imagines himself together with her. There are lots of possibilities for interesting plot twists that would be more satisfying than them just offering no details to each other for no other reason than that the plot requires it. Otherwise, this was an excellent romance. The two leads were very likable and had loads of chemistry. You really saw them together and you really hoped it would happen. The movie kept you on the edge of your seat, waiting for the anticipated meeting of the two of them in real life that may or may not happen. This is definitely one of my favorite Hallmark romances.

I only knew they were interested in each other because the movie told me so a hundred times. If it hadn't, I would assume they are brother and sister separated at birth. Every scene with them is awkward and forced, in some of them it even looks like the actors are annoyed. It's also funny that the male protagonist (don't care enough to know his name) doesn't ask the woman anything about herself and seems completely bored half of the time. So, whenever she provides even the most basic info about herself it feels like she's oversharing, cause he didn't ask. I'm giving it a 3 because the idea for the plot is alright and all things considered, it could be much worse. Take my review with a grain of salt as I didn't know it was a hallmark movie when it showed up on Netflix, if you like hallmark you might have a better experience.