A Nightmare on Elm Street

Plot overview

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

Director

Samuel Bayer

Cast

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  Rooney Mara

  Nancy Holbrook

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  Kyle Gallner

  Quentin Smith

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  Jackie Earle Haley

  Freddy Krueger

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  Katie Cassidy

  Kris Fowles

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  Thomas Dekker

  Jesse Braun

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  Kellan Lutz

  Dean Russell

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  Clancy Brown

  Alan Smith

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  Connie Britton

  Dr. Gwen Holbrook