After a woman is attacked in her apartment, she begins reliving the traumatic event in her dreams night after night. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, with some unexpected, and horrific, results. This pulse-pounding psychological thriller stars Emmy Award-winner Kristy McNichol ("Only When I Laugh," TV's "Empty Nest"), Paul Shenar ("Scarface," "The Big Blue"), Ben Masters ("All the Jazz," "Making Mr. Right") and Jon Polito ("Flags of Our Fathers," "Miller's Crossing"). Directed by Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominee Alan J. Pakula ("The Pelican Brief," "All the President's Men").

DREAM LOVER is a complicated scientific thriller, a tale that explores the unknown boundaries between the dream state and the waking state. Kathy Gardner (Kristy McNichol) is alone at home when she finds herself fighting for her life against an intruder that she fatally stabs in the back. After the event McNichol is tormented by a recurring dream of the incident. Were her actions a necessary act of self defense, or an act of subconscious fury, and can a dream-researcher help her unlock the truth behind what really happened that night' Or will her two worlds merge into one and her dreams/nightmares come true'