Dream Lover

James Spader is one of my favorite actors. When it comes to playing sleazy, smarmy villains he is one of the best. He's also quite adept to playing the nice guy as well, even though those aren't really the roles he is best known for. One of his overlooked, nice guy roles was in the sexy, 1993 thriller Dream Lover.

Spader plays a recent divorcee who thinks he has met his perfect match, Madchen Amick, after a chance meeting at an art gallery exhibit. He falls head over heels in love with her and quickly makes her his wife. Shortly after, the two start a family and everything seems perfect on the surface. But suspicions start to arise and Spader begins to think that his perfect wife isn't who she claims to be.

This film comes from the terrific screenwriter Nicholas Kazan, who makes a terrific directorial debut. Oddly this is the only film he has directed. The film reminds me a lot of an earlier Spader movie, Bad Influence, but with Amick in the Rob Lowe role.

Spader is terrific as always and Amick makes for a good femme fatale, even though she might be a little too young for the role.

This is a very sexy and trippy flick.

It's available on dvd.