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I want to dream

1981 · 85 min

A gentle, sentimental family story about a lonely boy finding comfort and friendship, with a soft heart and simple pleasures.

Overview
A boy lives with the last man his mother loved before she died, but a well-matched couple wants to stay with him and adopt him as their son due to their problems conceiving. Although the situation for the orphan is not the best after his mother died, little by little he will find happiness and overcome it in a water park. There he will become a great inseparable friend of the dolphins.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • found family
  • grief
  • family
  • healing
  • parenthood
Places
  • home
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism7
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity2
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy, family
Directed by
Juan Logar
Written by
Juan Logar
Starring
Juan Luis Galiardo, Fiorella Faltoyano, Alfredo Mayo, Mary Carrillo, José Carabias, Miguel Moll
Music
Juan Logar
Runtime
85 min
Country
Mexico
Languages
Spanish

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