Daydream Nation

• Director: Mike Goldbach
• Writer: Mike Goldbach
• Cast: Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Andie MacDowell, Josh Lucas, Rachel Blanchard
• Theatrical Release Date: May 6, 2011 6:25 AM
• Distributor: Anchor Bay
• Criticwire: B-
• On The Web IMDB Entry

Synopsis: Only seventeen years old, Caroline Wexler (Kat Dennings) is facing a teenager’s nightmare: her widowed father has moved from the city to a tiny, nowhere town where the major tourist attraction is an industrial fire that seems destined to burn forever. Everyone under the age of nineteen is permanently stoned. Concocting new ways of getting high is a major hobby for most of Caroline’s classmates, including the lovelorn Thurston (Reece Thompson), who falls for Caroline the minute he lays eyes on her, although she’s more interested in someone else. And then there’s the minor inconvenience of a killer running around the neighborhood. [Synopsis courtesy of TIFF]