Dream Lover is a 1993 American erotic thriller film written and directed by Nicholas Kazan[2] and starring James Spader and Mädchen Amick, with Bess Armstrong, Frederic Lehne, and Larry Miller in supporting roles.

Ray Reardon, a successful architect, divorces his wife, and goes to a gallery opening to meet a blind date set up by his friend, Norman.

Despite an attempt to prove that Lena has been lying, the judge finds Ray to be mentally incompetent and orders him held for six months.

He convinces his friend Larry's wife Elaine to tell Lena that she made a mistake in her "master plan".

Ray lures her away from the attendants who are supposed to be supervising him and tells her that having him declared insane was the "mistake" because he could not now be held legally accountable for killing her.