Backstreet Dreams

BACKSTREET DREAMS is about a New Jersey street hood, Dean (Jason O'Malley), and his great love and devotion to his autistic son Shane (played by twins Joseph and John Viezzi). The film begins with Dean coming home from another hard day of intimidation and violence. It becomes increasingly obvious that he and his wife Lucy (Sherilyn Fenn of TV's "Twin Peaks") are unable to reach their extremely introverted child. Enter NYU Ph.D. candidate Stephanie Bloom (Brooke Shields), who is bound and determined to get through to Shane. After weeks of seemingly unproductive therapy, Lucy, thinking Stephanie is more interested in her husband than in Shane, tells Stephanie to leav...