Fugitive Dreams movie storyline. In this allegorical road movie touching on themes of homelessness, mental health, and addiction, two lost souls embark across a dreamscape America. Their darkly strange journey confronts them with their traumatic pasts, and bonds them in compassion and love. Mary, a homeless drifter, is filled with anger and deep depression.
When another drifter, John, inadvertently thwarts her suicide attempt, the two form an unlikely partnership across the American Midwest. John brings a certain innocence to their relationship, Mary, a hardened practicality. Mary’s destination is “anywhere but here.” John’s is a place that only exists in his imagination. Along the way they meet a series of figures — ghosts of the road, voices of other cast-outs — deemed disposable by culture.
These encounters challenge and torment John and Mary as they journey through a landscape that offers little solace for those living the most precarious of lives. The final leg of their wanderings brings them to the place of John’s dreams where the gray of the real world melts into color and the troubles of their afflictions dissolve away.
Over the course of their story, John and Mary come to understand that the home they seek is not a particular place within this country. As they discover in the end, their home is one another.
Fugitive Dreams is an independent drama film directed by Jason Neulander and starring April Matthis, Robbie Tann, Scott Shepherd, O-Lan Jones, David Patrick Kelly, Joey Hood, Soleil Patterson, Sean Avery Huber, Travis Barrera, Victor Steele, Jennifer Kuczaj and Cami Alys. The screenplay wab written by Jason Neulander. The film was released on January 5, 2024 in the United States by Freestyle Releasing.
Fugitive Dreams (2024)
Directed by: Jason Neulander
Starring: April Matthis, Robbie Tann, Scott Shepherd, O-Lan Jones, David Patrick Kelly, Joey Hood, Soleil Patterson, Sean Avery Huber, Travis Barrera, Victor Steele, Jennifer Kuczaj, Cami Alys
Screenplay by: Jason Neulander
Production Design by: Scott Colquitt, Thoa Nguyen
Cinematography by: Peter Simonite
Film Editing by: Mike Saenz
Costume Design by: Chrissy Paszalek
Art Direction by: Annie Bradford
Music by: Nathan Hamilton
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Freestyle Releasing
Release Date: January 5, 2024
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