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Wishing for a Dream

USA 2016
produced by
Gabriel Campisi, Judy Kim (executive) for Traplight Media
directed by Jared Cohn
starring Sara Malakul Lane, Jared Cohn, Nicole Alexandra Shipley, Gabriel Campisi, David Michael Latt, Richard Switzer, Andi Fine, and the voices of Samantha Stewart, John Mehrer, David Gere, Steve Hanks
written by Jared Cohn, songs by Harmonious Fits, Digital Aether, Kenn Medeiros, Kevin Murphy, The Brothers Rock, Whiskey Reverb

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Mika (Sara Malakul Lane) and Louis (Jared Cohn) are the typical Hollywood couple who haven't made it yet: She's an actress who's rushing from one audition to the next while he's a director who tries to get his movie financed - and more and more has to come to terms with the fact he might not be able to cast Mika in the lead ...

But Mika has other problems at the moment: She can't sleep, that audition she thinks will change her life is only hours away, her best friend (Nicole Alexandra Shipley) supplies her with drugs that she's not supposed to take, and she has body image issues just because ... well, because it's Hollywood, real women would kill to have a body like hers.

But while dreams are made in Hollywood, dreams don't usually come true in the same speck of land - and if they do, not the way you expect them to ...

The Asylum co-head David Michael Latt has an amusing cameo as himself in this one.

 

Wishing for a Dream is a film that will probably be too close to home for everybody who has ever tried to succeed in Hollywood, no matter whether they ultimately succeeded or not. Basically it's a film about the very struggles one has to go through to fulfill one's dream in the city of dreams, and the ridiculous demands that come with it, including feeling insecure about one's perfect body, letting producers slam one's great script for "marketing purposes" and the like, plus the after-effects that come with this, like addiction to all sorts of drugs (even legal ones), weird lifestyle choices and the like.

Now truth to be told, the basic narrative of Wishing for a Dream is not structured particularly well, it feels more like a bunch of Hollywood anecdotes strung together ... and yet the film totally works, because its characters feel real, especially with all their flaws and shortcomings, the story, while episodic, is 100% believable, and the film manages to shed an eye on the not-so-glamourous side of Hollywood without just going the sensationalist route, instead getting the emotional side of things down.

A really cool film, actually!

 

 

 

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