Dreamin’ Wild
Description
Rediscovery is both a blessing and a curse in Bill Pohlad’s (Love and Mercy, Festival 2015) new film, based on real events and starring Casey Affleck and Beau Bridges. Affleck plays singer-songwriter Don Emerson who, as a teenager with his brother Joe (Walton Goggins) and with funding from their father, made a pretty decent LP that sank without a trace. Thirty years later, when record label founder Matt Sullivan tracks the brothers down to their family farm and wants to reissue the record and plan a couple of live shows, it rekindles the siblings’ ambitions and competitiveness. Affleck is riveting as the more talented brother who submerges his dreams and talent for a simpler life while Beau Bridges brings his unmistakable humanity to his role of Don Sr, a loving parent who makes necessary sacrifices to help his children shine.
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Biographies
Dreamin’ Wild is Bill Pohlad’s third feature after Love & Mercy (Festival 2014) and Old Explorers (1980). He is also a longtime producer and executive producer, who counts among his projects Brokeback Mountain (2005); Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006); Into the Wild (2007); The Tree of Life (2011), for which he received a Best Picture Oscar® nomination; 12 Years a Slave (2012); Wild (2014); and David Byrne’s American Utopia (2020). He is the founder and president of River Road Entertainment.