18-year-old Audrey (Agnes Bruckner) is forever trapped in a trailer park with her Alcoholic widowed father and her dying best friend Calista (Kelli Garner), who not only dreams of becoming Miss America, but prays to God it will happen every night before she goes to bed.
Dreamland is a small remote community in the New Mexico desert. It's one of those hopeless death traps with an idealistic name, hoping for a future that never will be. The film is filled with walking and talking white trash cliches. I was surprised that screenwriter Tom Willett didn't make Audrey's father a physical or sexual abuser.

Music video and commercial director Jason Matzner's first film has few worth wild character moments. The highlight is a conversation containing an interesting Baywatch observation. But with self referential Jerry Springer references, the story barely transcends it's cliched origins.

Watching Agnes Buckner in Dreamland is a horribly disappointing experience in itself. The star of the hit 2002 Sundance favorite Blue Car, once promised to be the next big actress. But now look at her. She's lost her innocence and appeal.

Watching Dreamland is a hopeless experience. You hope and dream that it will only get better but it doesn't. As is life in Dreamland.

/Film Rating: 5 out of 10