Dreamland is a film about a girl (Audry) who lives in a dessert trailer park called Dreamland. She’s got her dad (a drunkard with an unexplainable fear of leaving the trailer park), her best friend (who wants to be Miss America, and has MS), her boytoy (a co-worker who “drives her home” with a fair regularity), and her poetry. Then a new boy comes to the trailer park. The problem is that both of the main girls end up liking him. Audrey’s friend ends up being the one to date him, though, and Audrey is forced to watch their relationship… until it’s revealed that the boy actually likes Audrey.
The acting in this was… good. It wasn’t great, but it didn’t reek of B-movie amateurism either. The plot was fairly interesting. The scenery was nice and the cinematography was well thought out.
However, the pacing was slow, and the script didn’t seem full. There wasn’t much reason for Audrey to “be in love with” the new guy, or even for him to like her back. They only hung out together a couple of times during the movie. The boy spent most of the film with Audrey’s best friend Calista who he was dating. Not enough happened between him and Audrey to give cause for their feelings for one another.
There’s also a scene where the dad is actually able to leave the trailer park. This is, presumably, supposed to be a HUGE turning point for the character… but there’s never really a big deal made about it, as there should have been. Everyone just kinda brushed it off.
So while the movie was pretty good (not GREAT, but didn’t suck), there were just some things that seemed unanswered.