Ronald S. This is just one more in a long line of boring, filmed-in-BC, movies-with-a-message. Don't believe all the four- and five-star fake reviews from the cast and crew; it is formulaic garbage. Like everything else coming out of BC these days, it uses one has-been actor (Andie MacDowell) and a bunch of 25- and 28-year-olds, playing teenagers. There is not one believable scene in the entire movie, and - like every other "message movie" "stalker movie" or "murderer movie" out of BC - it is 99% talk talk talk.Examples. Wanna get your actors to appear edgy? Portray them hotboxing in a stranger's dad's van. Wanna see what the term "phoning in your performance" really means? Watch Andie MacDowall, who very obviously did this one only for the money.Typical CBC/Lifetime boring movie, made by too many actors and crew who spent too much time hotboxing and not enough time writing, directing, filming and acting. If you keep waiting for this movie to get better, trust me; it never does.

tieman64 "It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. This requires a social and political explanation. Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill?" - Mark Fisher Written and directed by Michael Goldbach, "Daydream Nation" stars Kat Dennings as Caroline Wexler, a seventeen year old girl living in small-town America. With a serial killer on the loose, and industrial fires perpetually burning on the horizon, Caroline's world is quite literally both toxic and threatening.Many film-makers have tried to document the various forms of middle-class malaise oft associated with contemporary, techno-capitalism. With its toxic skies and cast of intoxicated, dysfunctional adults and children, "Daydream Nation" attempts to do the same. But Goldbach doesn't peer hard enough, doesn't dig deep enough, and the sociopolitical forces weighing down upon his characters are left entirely unexplored. Like most films of its ilk, "Daydream Nation" then posits depression, addiction, dysfunction, alienation and mental illness as a product of easily curable loneliness. A little companionship, a little sex, and you too can be fixed. That these constitute evasions at best, socially sanctioned addictions at worst, doesn't occur to Goldbach. With fine performances by Josh Lucas and Andie MacDowell.6/10 - See "Red Desert", Todd Haynes' "Safe" and "The Devil Probably".

hellspook Personnaly, i found the movie perfect to fit its goal. I was amused the whole time and intrigued. Kat Dennings was more beautiful than ever with her incredible stare. She growns mature as an actress and this could be her best movie ever. Her character represented the perfect teen seen from extreme opposite of love and affection. Reece Thompson was sexier than Jonh Lucas cause his fading beauty and i would have chosen him too considering the facts. His acting was fine as virgin and single son but i liked the characters traits more. Josh Lucas get better with age, he was someone i could refer with cause i always smile too, and this movie made it easier to maintain. Katie Boland was so sincere and encrusted in her role that she deserves a special attention. It was a cliché movie that seduced me. It showed all side of love from childhood through parenthood and i liked when both parents met up. The kids relations made me smile as its how love should be, hand in hand.I would just have wished for longer sex scenes XD but it made my top 10 easily at first sight.I cant forget the story now and i wised i was a sexy writer now who wouldn't fall so easily for a young slut, she only had sex with two guys after all. I suggest to heal yourself from sadness and reanimate the true meaning of love, sex and beauty. Many actors have huge potential, even Natasha Calis, she was cute in her role. Its a rare pearl i found and will cherish the DVD for ever. Thank you for reading it all. +

blackattack I was in a film and music store when I happened upon "Daydream Nation",my common sense prevented me from purchasing a film before I have seen it...so I rented it from my local video store instead.What I love about this film is the narration from Kat Dennings, whose character moves to small-town, America where she is easily in a league of her own maturity and whit-wise. She decides to do something to liven up her life and so she seduces her teacher Mr. Anderson, played incredibly by the witty Josh Lucas, whose character displays the maturity level one might expect from one of his students.At the same time Caroline Wexler is in the middle of a complicated relationship with Thurston, where-as I interpreted their first date as an attempt on Caroline's part to get back at Mr. Anderson who ditches her at the last minute for a semi-date with the gym teacher, who is almost always dressed in a very annoying referee's shirt. However, it is very awkward.What I would like to have seen with this movie would have been for several loose ends to have been addressed, for instance who threw the rock through Mr. Anderson's window, how is he a teacher when in his history it never addresses him going to college to be such,and who the killer actually was and what was his reasoning behind doing such horrible things??? I would have liked to see the development of an actual relationship to develop between Caroline and some other character, one that was not based solely on sex and flirtation.Yet, in spite of this, I really enjoyed this movie by a first time director, I've read the other reviews that compare this to other films and directors, yet i have to disagree, I believe that this film stands alone in that it is very original and the plot is completely it's own, and i give major kudos to the director and writer for the unique vision and originality. I only hope more original films can come from this talented newcomer as well as from the actors that portray these incredible characters