He takes a meeting with a snarky group of branding experts (led by Michael Cera, perfectly cast) who want to market him up the wazoo. Now, everyone is interested in him.īorgli never stops to analyze the science of this bizarre development, and frankly, Paul doesn’t either. But in real life, for once, Paul has the floor - a man who until now seethed with frustration over his unrealized ambitions as others succeeded. In many of these dreams, Paul stands by, inexplicably, as others experience peril - slithering alligators, for example. What’s happening? On campus, Paul’s students, who mostly chat among themselves during his unremarkable lectures on evolutionary biology, start listening - they’re dreaming about him, too. At a dinner party, several guests discover to their shock that they’ve been dreaming about the same person. Paul and his patient wife, Janet (Julianne Nicholson, reliably excellent) run into someone at the theater, and she too has dreamed about Paul. Scary things start dropping from the heavens, and suddenly the girl is grabbed by an unknown force and lifted, screaming, into the sky.

We begin on an autumn day by a suburban swimming pool, where Paul is raking leaves near his teen daughter.

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