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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 91 minutes
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
David Kulovic (Martin Donovan) seems an affable sort, a New York City plumber with a steady business. Yet one more time he overhears a potential girlfriend mentioning how the relationship can't work because he's just a plumber, like some other--lower--class of individual. One day Jimmy bursts in on a casting session because his friend, the casting director (Kevin Carroll), owes him money. The young actresses immediately think he is someone important, a producer or director. So the idea hatches: fake casting sessions to meet girls. Director John Walsh's film (co-written with Cynthia Kaplan) is never as shallow as the set-up might seem, and to mention more of the plot would spoil the surprises of this gem for romantic-comedy enthusiasts. It's a superb role for Donovan, a staple of filmmaker Hal Hartley's (Trust) who had his biggest brush with mainstream fame as Al Pacino's partner in Insomnia (released the same year, 2002). Mary-Louise Parker turns in another delightful performance as a neighbor of David's who holds the key to his scheme that quickly snowballs, and Rebecca Gayheart gives her best performance as the object of David's affection. The film has a false note or two, but certainly makes beautiful music. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Pipe Dream
Cute little comedy. Civilised and devoid of vulgarity. All the more of a discovery as it appears not to have been released in many countries
Rating:  - Not Rodgers and Hammerstein
This is not the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the same name. Just thought I'd let you know so you didn't make the same mistake I did.
Rating:  - Cute, efficient, and sometimes charming
Pipe Dream is yet another in the endless genre of films about making films but it's slightly different in that the bombast of moviemaking is downplayed and the relationships between the characters is highlighted. The basic plot is that of a plumber who masquerades as a film director in order to meet women, and in doing so finds himself in a position to direct an actual film. It's got a cute feel to it, mainly because Martin Donovan as the plumber as this mild goofball charm and Mary-Louise Parker, ... Read More
Rating: - The Social Psychology Of Attribution
Having never heard of it, I purchased a cable television viewing of Pipe Dream in the hope that its splendid cast would generate sufficient friction to hold my interest for an hour and one-half on a quiet Sunday evening. I was particularly intrigued at the prospect of watching Martin Donovan and Mary-Louise Parker, two exceptionally talented actors, work together in the context of a romantic comedy. I am happy to report that not only was I completely engrossed by this delightful ensemble piece, I had ... Read More
Rating:  - Finally, An Intelligent Romantic Comedy
There's a large majority in the world, at least in the Western Hemisphere that lives by the canon of "Perception is Everything". They prescribe and are overly dependant that immediate perception is the only mode that human beings acquire all information to process, interpret, judge and hence, "understand" and "see" others in the world. In other words, perception equals "reality". If one sees a banker, a car mechanic and a teacher, an immediate profile (or at the very least, a level of respectability and ... Read More
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