DREAM SCENARIO

Nicolas Cage, an actor who has achieved iconic status playing crackpots and weirdos, is transformed in this satire on celebrity into the most ordinary, utterly unmemorable man in the world. Paul Matthews is a lecturer in evolutionary biology at a third-rate American college who struggles to get even his students to pay attention to him until, without being aware of it, he starts appearing in the dreams of total strangers. Dull, decent Matthews becomes a celebrity, sought for product endorsements, until his numerous dream selves turn violent and he becomes a hate figure as inexplicably as he became a folk hero. Brilliant, zany and ultimately a trenchant critique of modern cancel culture, Dream Scenario proves the perfect vehicle for Cage’s larger-than-life talent