Liebestraum (German for "dream of love") is a 1991 American mystery film written and directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Kevin Anderson, Pamela Gidley, Bill Pullman, Zach Grenier, Alicia Witt, Taina Elg, and Kim Novak in her final film role to date.
Thirty years later, Nick (Kevin Anderson), a professor of architecture in upstate New York arrives in Elderstown, Illinois to be with his birth mother (Kim Novak) in the final days of her illness; he was adopted and never met her before.
On the first day, he runs into Paul (Bill Pullman), a college friend, whose construction company is demolishing an old downtown department store where a murder-suicide happened thirty years before.
It is uncovered that the man shot and killed at the start of the film is Nick's father, and that the woman survived but in a fragile state.
When Liebestraum made its VHS debut, it was released in two editions — the R-rated theatrical version and an unrated director's cut.