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Rêve de femme

Original title: Intimate Encounters
  • TV Movie
  • 1986
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
161
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Rêve de femme (1986)
Drama

A bored suburban housewife embarks upon a series of affairs seemingly triggered by escapism and fantasy.A bored suburban housewife embarks upon a series of affairs seemingly triggered by escapism and fantasy.A bored suburban housewife embarks upon a series of affairs seemingly triggered by escapism and fantasy.

  • Director
    • Ivan Nagy
  • Writer
    • Dennis Turner
  • Stars
    • Donna Mills
    • James Brolin
    • Veronica Cartwright
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
    161
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ivan Nagy
    • Writer
      • Dennis Turner
    • Stars
      • Donna Mills
      • James Brolin
      • Veronica Cartwright
    • 10User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Donna Mills
    Donna Mills
    • Julie Atkins
    James Brolin
    James Brolin
    • Nick Atkins
    Veronica Cartwright
    Veronica Cartwright
    • Emily
    Gary Bayer
    • Gordon
    Mitchell Anderson
    Mitchell Anderson
    • Sean
    Cicely Tyson
    Cicely Tyson
    • Dr. Claire Dalton
    Clyde Kusatsu
    Clyde Kusatsu
    • Professor Ikeda
    Michael Greene
    Michael Greene
    • Steven
    Phil Rubenstein
    • Harold
    Frank Dicopoulos
    Frank Dicopoulos
    • Gas Station Attendant
    Stephen Yates
    • The Jogger
    David Mason Daniels
    • Young Driver
    JoAnn Willette
    JoAnn Willette
    • Young Girl
    Clayton Norcross
    Clayton Norcross
    • Male Student
    Jack Wells
    • Stanley Knapp
    Elena Monica
    • Kathy
    Marta Kober
    • 2nd Girl
    Joel Rice
    • Male student
    • Director
      • Ivan Nagy
    • Writer
      • Dennis Turner
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    Bela-12

    A very romantic movie.

    This movie is about a married woman who keeps having fantasies about younger men. The fantasies take place in different background settings (park, bedroom). Her fantasies go so deep until there's a point when she gets into a car accident. One day she was washing dishes in the kitchen and she started having the fantasies until the house started flooding. At the end she tried getting help. If you like having fantasies, then watch this movie.
    3scotthumphries

    Turgid marital melodrama aspires to soft-core titilation

    This unintentionally amusing mid-80s TV movie is based on the premise that sex bomb Donna Mills (in a mostly appalling wardrobe throughout) is a neglected housewife, pining for her sexy past as a cheerleader. She escapes her empty life by fantasising about random sexual encounters with one of the many attractive men she comes across, finally giving into her fantasies and indulging in a bit on the side, although all she really wants is to reignite the flames of passion with her boring husband James Brolin.

    There are many laughable aspects to this film, Mills' first foray into co-producing (later, following her departure from Knots Landing, she found great success as a trashy TV movie queen starring in mostly issue-of-the-week melodramas through most of the '90s - she usually played a victim of some sort, clearly determined to wash her hands of the wonderfully wicked and entertaining conniver she played for so long on Knots). Funniest are the drawn-out fantasy sequences, filmed as though they are meant to be soft-core porn (wind and smoke machines, backlighting, porno music), but as this is a network TV movie the scenes are all very chaste and ultimately not very sexy at all. The most amusing (and bizarre) scene has Mills taking a walk on the wild side downtown among the spiky-haired punks (complete with Robert Palmer soundtrack).

    Less laughable is the dreadful dialogue that the cardboard characters are forced to utter (pity poor Cicely Tyson as the mandatory psycho-analyst, or Veronica Cartwright as the mandatory best friend, or even pre-Babs James Brolin with that daytime soap style of clenched fist anger.)

    Of course, as in all of these sorts of films, we learn that all problems can be solved through psycho-therapy and then the film just becomes silly, as we explore, briefly, the reasons for Mills' "shocking" behaviour (as if it can't just be that she wants a good shag!)

    Vacuous.
    5ZeddaZogenau

    Television Movie with Donna MILLS and James BROLIN

    Raunchy TV movie starring Donna Mills and James Brolin

    When this film was broadcast on American television on September 28, 1986, Donna Mills, born in 1940, was at the peak of her television career. Her Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing from the PrimeTime soap KNOTS LANDING was, despite her bad lies and notorious schemes (she had just shaken off her responsibility for the kidnapping of Valene Ewing's (Joan Van ARK) twins in the series and rose like a phoenix from the ashes) incredibly popular with US audiences. So it naturally fit into the picture that she was allowed to play a good housewife who discovered her nymphomaniac tendencies almost overnight and then lived them out to the fullest. Of course, somewhat demurely so that the television viewers weren't too frightened! James Brolin, who was the star womanizer in the series HOTEL in those days, can be seen as her cuckolded husband. Cicely Tyson, Mitchell Anderson and Michael Greene also star. The uncrowned queen of horror classics, Veronica Cartwright (The Birds, Alien), is also on board.

    Interesting memory of the eighties with TV stars of the time!
    Digger-12

    Donna Mills is Fantastic!!!!

    This is an interesting movie. Donna Mills plays the part so well. She is the perfect soccer mom but in real life her body takes over her mine and she has cheap encounters. She plays the part so well. She looks so well - mid 40's during the movie and she could pass for a college girl - which she actually is ( a mom back in school). Wow - watch this one when it comes on TV.
    6reelguy2

    The first G-rated soft porn made-for-TV movie

    Bored housewife Donna Mills is frustrated by husband James Brolin's lack of attention, so she indulges in sexual fantasies about other men. Her fantasies are accompanied by light FM music that makes the scenes reminiscent of a soft porn flick, except for the fact that not a hint of flesh below her neck is exposed.

    It's difficult to feel sympathy for Donna Mills' character here. She's a knockout, and she has a stable of handsome young studs who flirt with her throughout the movie and appear only too willing to take Brolin's place. Mills' concerns around getting older are expressed when she stumbles during an attempted cartwheel. Pretty lame!

    The dialog is appalling, marked by inane psychobabble. The only scenes that register convincingly are toward the end when Brolin rages over his wife's infidelity.

    The casting director was obviously doing his job, however, ensuring that this effort is at least good to look at. Just be sure to turn down the sound!

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      Julie's weight fluctuates noticeably throughout the film. Since the entire film takes place in a few weeks at most, this is unlikely.

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    • Release date
      • September 28, 1986 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Intimate Encounters
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Larry Thompson Entertainment
      • Donna Mills Productions
      • Columbia Pictures Television
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 40m(100 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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