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TO DREAM
by Paulette Reynolds
December 10, 2018
Director: Nicole Albarelli
Screenplay: Nicole Albarelli
Starring Edward Hayter/Luke, Freddie Thorp/Tommy, Frank Jakeman/Charlie, Diana Vickers/Nikki, Kirsty Dillon/Helen, Angela Peters/Grace, Adam Deacon/Easy
by Paulette Reynolds
December 10, 2018
Director: Nicole Albarelli
Screenplay: Nicole Albarelli
Starring Edward Hayter/Luke, Freddie Thorp/Tommy, Frank Jakeman/Charlie, Diana Vickers/Nikki, Kirsty Dillon/Helen, Angela Peters/Grace, Adam Deacon/Easy
To Dream follows the downward spiral of three people who become tangled in their own maze of emotional expectations. Luke, our inner city hero, dreams of leaving the mean streets of London for the perfect life somewhere ‘in paradise’. A lovable youth, he spends his days drifting from one minor drama to another with Tommy, his boyhood buddy and partner in petty crime.
Tommy struggles to keep Luke close to him, hoping to keep his more popular friend out of harm’s way - and away from a serious relationship with Nikki that makes him more uncomfortable as time goes on.
Charlie, Luke’s father, is lost in an endless cycle of drinking and venting to his intimate circle of female friends, who display a subtle range of genteel stoicism while he whines about how life has cheated him. Pacing around his tiny flat like a caged beast, he rails at real and imaginary ghosts from his tattered past.
Luke, Tommy and Charlie are trapped then, not so much by their circumstances but by their stubborn resistance to change. Yet locked in the neo-noirish backdrop of their world, life doesn’t suffer fools for long.
The superb casting and cinematography helps to make this modern day tragedy a challenge to forget. Nicole Albarelli skillfully crafts a familiar tale of sorrow and pain that sends our emotions into free-fall as the end credits roll by, daring us to seek its deeper meanings long after To Dream is over.
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