""In Your Dreams," a new animated feature from Netflix, is a colorful movie filled with imaginative sights: a world of living breakfast food, a flying bed, a gigantic sand castle in which the legendary Sandman resides. But like the best children's movies, the actual story is grounded in Earth: The main characters, Stevie (Jolie Hoang-Rappaport) and Elliot (Elias Janssen) are ordinary suburban children whose parents (Simu Liu and Cristin Milioti) are dealing with financial trouble that's straining their marriage."
""And that's when I told [the team] this story about my mom leaving for a little while, and how devastating that was to me, and how the only thing I wanted in the whole world was for my family to stick together. And that felt like such a grounded, emotional and rootable want for a character and so that, like, the marriage of those two pieces, the package""
Stevie and Elliot are ordinary suburban siblings who venture into a fantastical dream world after discovering a book that grants access to dreams. The dream realm features imaginative elements like living breakfast food, a flying bed, and a vast sand castle housing the Sandman. Stevie embarks on a quest to find a wish that might save her parents' marriage while their family faces financial strain and separation. Director Alex Woo drew on his own childhood experience with parental separation to ground the story emotionally and combined his background in Pixar and Kuku Studios to craft the film.
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