them. He is holding Claire hostage at the factory, and wants her and Ruby to stay with him as his "new family". Police manage to track Claire to the factory, where they have a face-off with Vivian, holding a gun to Claire's head. While a SWAT team attempts to snipe Vivian from a helicopter, he chases Claire along a bridge crossing a tributary waterfall, knocking both her and himself over the guardrail. Claire and Vivian plunge below the falls. In the water, Claire has a vision of being reunited with her daughter before drowning. Later, Vivian, who survived the fall, is committed to the same psychiatric institute where Claire had been incarcerated. While lying in his bed, he has horrific visions of Claire's spirit haunting him and the phrase "Sweet dreams, Vivian" being scrawled in blood on the ceiling. The phrase emerges across the walls of his cell, and he screams in horror. Cast Annette Bening as Claire Cooper Katie Sagona as Rebecca Cooper Aidan Quinn as Paul Cooper Robert Downey Jr. as Vivian Thompson Paul Guilfoyle as Detective Jack Kay Kathleen Langlois as Snow White Jennifer Holly Berry as Hunter Amelia Claire Novotny as Prince Kristin Sroka as Wicked Step-Mother Robert Walsh as Man at School Play Denise Cormier as Woman at School Play John Fiore as Policeman Ken Cheeseman as Paramedic Dennis Boutsikaris as Doctor Stevens Stephen Rea as Doctor Silverman Margo Martindale as Nurse Floyd June Lewin as Kindly Nurse Pamela Payton-Wright as Ethel Geoffrey Wigdor as Vivian Thompson - As Teenager Krystal Benn as Ruby Dorothy Dwyer as Foster Mother Analysis Film scholar Maria Pramaggiore notes In Dreams as one example in Jordan's filmography in which popular songs are employed to "disestablish time and place to convey the notion of time as a cyclical process." Pramaggiore also stresses the importance of the uncanny in the film, citing it as one of several in Jordan's filmographyalong with The Miracle (1991) and The Butcher Boy (1997)in which "dreams assume the status of reality." Production Screenplay The film is based on the novel Doll's Eyes, by Bari Wood. The project originated as a script titled Blue Vision, written by Bruce Robinson. Neil Jordan came aboard to direct the film as one of the first projects at DreamWorks, having worked with David Geffen on his previous three films. Jordan rewrote the script and re-titled it In Dreams. Commenting on what