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Daydream Nation

Daydream Nation

Drama · Romance · 2011

Forced to move to a boring backwater town, a teenager embarks on affairs with a teacher and a stoner classmate.

Movie details

Daydream Nation

2011 Drama · Romance 1h 38m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.3 / 10

13.2K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

67 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

57 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

5.8 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Forced to move to a boring backwater town, a teenager embarks on affairs with a teacher and a stoner classmate.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Daydream Nation?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Michael Goldbach

Written by

Michael Goldbach

Kat Dennings

Kat Dennings

Caroline Wexler

Reece Thompson

Reece Thompson

Thurston

Josh Lucas

Josh Lucas

Barry Anderson

Andie MacDowell

Andie MacDowell

Enid Goldberg

Rachel Blanchard

Rachel Blanchard

Ms. Budge

Natasha Calis

Natasha Calis

Lily Goldberg

Quinn Lord

Quinn Lord

Thomas

Court is in session

Put Daydream Nation on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.