The Dream Catcher

1999 | 99 minutes | 6.1 ★ (13)

The Dream Catcher
  • Overview

    An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficulties including a pregnant girlfriend. In Ohio, he meets another homeless teen, who escorts him to his uncle. Finding his uncle equally broke, the duo head on to Oklahoma City to try to find the first teen's long-gone ex-con father. A confrontation between father and son send the duo on into exploits in the west including getting beaten up, busting into an Indian reservation church, and hitch-hiking with a beautiful nurse.

  • Release Date

    08 August 1999

  • DirectingEd Radtke
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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