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124-579: Patricia Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) and has starred in many film and television productions. She has received several awards, including an Academy Award , two Primetime Emmy Awards , and three Golden Globe Awards . She had starring roles in several critically acclaimed films, including True Romance (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Lost Highway (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1998), Bringing Out

248-465: A Golden Globe in 2005, 2006 and 2007, a SAG Award in 2006, 2007 and 2010, and an Emmy Award in 2007. In 2009 NBC cancelled Medium, then CBS picked the series up and it lasted another two seasons. In 2008, she provided voice work for A Single Woman , which was panned. She did not appear in another film until 2012. Girl in Progress , a drama directed by Patricia Riggen , marked her return; it

372-642: A cameo in Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). According to Knight, Wes Craven had been nervous about calling Johnny Depp due to how his career had exploded since his role in A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984, fearing that Depp would consider his new film and a mere cameo to be beneath him. Instead, he called Knight and offered her a cameo, explaining that he was a fan of how she portrayed Kristen in The Dream Master . In Wes Craven's and Bruce Wagner's original script from Dream Warriors , Kristen

496-441: A "beautiful dream" did send her into the good side of the dream world, independent of Freddy in his nightmare realm, which made Nancy strong enough to oppose him. In the short story Le Morte De Freddy in the anthology book The Nightmares on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's Seven Sweetest Dreams , Alice sent a letter to Neil Gordon after the events of The Dream Master , revealing that Freddy had murdered Kristen, Joey and Kincaid, but

620-524: A Limited Series or Movie . In 2022, Arquette began co-starring in the Apple TV+ thriller series Severance , also directed by Stiller. The series has received critical acclaim. At age 20, Arquette had a relationship with Paul Rossi, a musician. They had a son together, Enzo Rossi, born on January 3, 1989. In April 1995, Arquette married Nicolas Cage (with whom she later co-starred in Bringing Out

744-517: A Single Performance for her guest appearance as Martha Corrine Walton in the episode "The Pony Cart" (Episode #111). She first appeared in The Waltons episode "The Conflict" (Episode #51) as the widow of Zeb Walton's brother. The series itself earned a Peabody Award for its first season. In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Waltons No. 34 on its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time. In 2017, from March 20 to March 24, INSP network remembered

868-407: A career in acting, Arquette had wanted to be a midwife . She put this career prospect aside briefly in an attempt to gain acting jobs and gained success in the industry. They asked me to come back for 4 but at that time I was starting to break into kind of meatier roles. I had just done a movie of the week about teen pregnancy called Daddy and I was really liking getting deeper with my work. I love

992-443: A catwalk high above the room. She looks around and sees that Freddy is standing in front of a furnace, watching her with a grin on his face. With a defiant cry, Kristen runs at Freddy. She does a series of cartwheels and throws herself at her tormentor, crashing into him. Caught off guard, Freddy stumbles backwards and falls onto the grating. Another deleted scene was of Freddy tormenting Kristen with severe sunburns as she sinks through

1116-413: A few months. The series finale, "The Revel," revolves around a party and the invitation date is given as June 4, 1946. A span of 13 years is therefore covered in nine seasons. There are some chronological inconsistencies, most of which do not hinder the storyline. The episode depicting the attack on Pearl Harbor was broadcast on December 7, 1978, a Thursday, which coordinated the month and date on which

1240-411: A fight with James Gandolfini (as a viciously sadistic killer) which her character ultimately wins. Arquette's performance received unanimous praise from critics. Janet Maslin of The New York Times remarked that Arquette played her role with "surprising sweetness", while Peter Travers remarked that "Arquette delivers sensationally". TV Guide noted that the film blends and recycles elements from

1364-579: A friendly though somewhat gossipy widow who runs a nearby boarding house; and Yancy Tucker, a good-hearted handyman with big plans but little motivation. Jefferson County sheriff Ep Bridges, who fought alongside John in World War I and was awarded the Medal of Honor , keeps law and order in Walton's Mountain. The entire family (except for John) attends a Baptist church, of which Olivia and Grandma Esther are

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1488-421: A good job. It's just a testament to what a fine actress she is". Kristen has (for Dream Warriors ) been called "one of the most beloved and well-remembered characters from the franchise" and "a role that was as important as Heather Langenkamp's Nancy Thompson". Though Ken Sagoes has mentioned on Never Sleep Again that he did not think his and Rodney Eastman 's chemistry was as good with Tuesday Knight as it

1612-599: A habit they both berate her for. However, Kristen's worst fears prove to be true as Krueger resurrects himself in Kincaid's dream and murders him during a night when Kristen keeps herself awake and thus incapable of coming to his aid; he then murders Joey as well, and the following morning Kristen talks about her fears to Alice, who recommend her to take control of her dreams and "think of someplace fun". Kristen panics when she notices that Joey and Kincaid are both missing from their seats in class and realizes what has happened – in

1736-502: A horror-thriller film directed by Ole Bornedal . The film is a remake the Danish film Nattevagten (1994), which was also directed by Bornedal. Nightwatch was not a box office success and received poor reviews by critics, many of whom considered it an unnecessary, inferior retelling of the original film. In 1998, Arquette performed in two films: Goodbye Lover , a comedic neo-noir directed by Roland Joffé and The Hi-Lo Country ,

1860-679: A human drama, sprinkled with sly, provoking wit, about how that culture defines how we live ... The film is brimming with grand ambitions but trips on many of them as some characters aren't given enough screen time to register and others vanish just when you want to learn more about them." A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote "It's a mirror and a portrait, and a movie as necessary and nourishing as your next meal." In January 2005, Arquette made her first transition to television with NBC's Medium . Her role as (a fictional version of) psychic medium Allison DuBois won her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2005, as well as nominations for

1984-718: A misguided attempt to help her. Kristen desperately tries to call Alice, but falls asleep. Kristen manages to dream herself into her "beautiful dream", a placid tropical beach, but Krueger interrupts and corrupts the dream into another nightmare. Relentlessly taunted by Krueger in his labyrinthine 1428/factory amalgamation, Kristen calls for Alice in panic, drawing her into Kristen's dream. Tearfully, Kristen tries to wake her up and apologizes, but as Kristen defiantly tries to shield Alice from Krueger, Alice watches in horror as he throws Kristen into his boiler, burning her alive, but before she dies, she gives her powers to Alice, though it passes through Krueger first, who then takes Kristen's soul. At

2108-415: A more complete list. Earl Hamner's rural childhood growing up in the unincorporated community of Schuyler, Virginia , provided the basis for the setting and many of the storylines of The Waltons . His family and the community provided many life experiences which aided in the characters, values, area, and human-interest stories of his books, movies, and television series. Hamner provided the voice-over of

2232-471: A new twist to the tale- the power to pull other people into her dreams". While the changes between drafts concerning Kristen in Dream Warriors are not quite as extensive as those for Nancy's character, some changes do occur. In the original script, Kristen's mother is named Alice and not Elaine, and she is still married to her husband and Kristen's father, Kirk Parker. Though ultimately omitted from

2356-593: A non-profit organization supporting ecological sanitation and composting, community development projects and housing construction in Haiti. In 1997, after her mother died of breast cancer , Arquette worked to raise awareness about the disease. She has run in the annual Race for the Cure . In 1999 she was the spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day , which raises millions of dollars for breast cancer research and education. In April 2010, she teamed up with welding students of

2480-441: A period Western directed by Stephen Frears . The former received a poor critical reception while the latter received a more appreciative albeit modest response. The Hi-Lo Country was widely cited as a "classic Western" in the press. Stephen Holden of The New York Times said, "In its best moments the movie feels like an epic hybrid of Red River and The Last Picture Show ." In 1999, Arquette returned to familiar territory with

2604-504: A prison worker in the miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018) and as Dee Dee Blanchard in the miniseries The Act (2019). They both won her Golden Globe Awards in addition to a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress for the latter. She has since starred in the Apple TV+ thriller series Severance (2022–present) and comedy series High Desert (2023). "I just didn't want to look perfect. I didn't want to have to change myself to be attractive. I didn't think that

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2728-842: A satanic eucharist unconsciously initiated by the parental world". He argues that Kristen's dream of Freddy killing her mother expresses Elaine's real feelings toward her daughter, where her severed head taunts her that Kristen spoils it when she brings a man home for dating and that she's just using her botched "suicide attempt" and apparent sleep disorder as a mean of drawing some attention from her mother. John Kenneth Muir describes Elaine as "a horrible woman who makes no attempt to understand her suffering child", and (on accusing Kristen of "just trying to get attention") that if "[Elaine] would give her any attention [after her suicide attempt], there would be no need for Kristen to do such things". The false protagonist plot device of starting The Dream Master from Kristen's point of view and later reveal Alice as

2852-504: A strong cult following. Arquette played an elusive femme fatale in a critically revered performance that enabled her to draw on her sexuality more than any other previous role. Roger Ebert , of the Chicago Sun-Times , disliked the film, saying there was "no sense to be made of it" and voiced his distaste over a scene in which Arquette's character is asked to disrobe at gunpoint. Other critics were more favourable: Andy Klein of

2976-457: A terrible " bogeyman " in their dreams. The conservative Dr. Elizabeth Simms refuses to acknowledge any supernatural elements in their afflictions, instead insisting that the common element of a bogeyman in their dreams is the result of mass hysteria and "the by-products of guilt". A new staff member is introduced to the teenagers – Nancy Thompson from the original Elm Street film . When her tormentor attempts to kill her in another nightmare in

3100-497: A terrible, disfigured man is relentlessly stalking and tormenting her, ultimately making her appear to slit her wrists as a suicide attempt in real life, which forces her mother Elaine to commit her to Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital. This leads to Kristen joining up with Phillip Anderson, Joey Crusel, Roland Kincaid, Will Stanton, Jennifer Caulfield and Taryn White, who have all had the same experiences with

3224-516: A theological point of view". Arquette then appeared in Martin Scorsese 's Bringing out the Dead , based on the novel by Joe Connelly . The film united her with then-husband Nicolas Cage and received highly favourable critical reviews, but was a box office flop. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that "Arquette's quietly credible performance helps center Frank's experiences; one of

3348-443: Is also home to folk of various income levels, ranging from the well-to-do Baldwin sisters, two spinsters who distill moonshine that they call "Papa's recipe;" Ike Godsey, postmaster and owner of the general store with his somewhat snobbish wife Corabeth (a Walton cousin; she calls her husband "Mr. Godsey"); an African-American couple, Verdie and Harley Foster; Maude Gormley, a presumptuous artist who paints on wood; Flossie Brimmer,

3472-557: Is augmented by some small-scale farming, and John occasionally hunts to put meat on the table. In the simpler days of their country youth, all of the children are rambunctious and curious, but as times grow tough, the children slowly depart from the innocent, carefree days of walking everywhere barefoot while clad in overalls and hand-sewn pinafores , and into the harsh, demanding world of accountability and responsibility. The family shares hospitality with relatives and strangers as they are able. The small community named after their property

3596-553: Is convinced that she took care of Freddy. Freddy himself refers to Nancy, Alice and Kristen when accusing them of hating their parents. The iconic scene of the Freddy-snake devouring Kristen appears in one issue of the MAD magazine ; in one panel, he does swallow her whole but gets a heartburn from doing so. There is also a panel of Kristen expressing disgust over the undead pig she saw in her nightmare. A single frame depiction of

3720-445: Is killed by Freddy was longer than the theatrical version, but New Line Cinema ordered director Renny Harlin to kill Kristen off within a certain time frame to make way for Alice as the new protagonist. The screenplay also has a desperate Kristen making a gymnastic attack on Freddy in vain as he stalks her further throughout the 1428 Elm Street/factory labyrinth he tends to use as a setting in nightmares: She realizes she's standing on

3844-487: Is named Kirsten and is described as "young - no more than 16 - and is stunningly beautiful", while the script for The Dream Master describes her as a "beautiful, but pensive-looking blonde teenager". In the book Hearths of Darkness: The Family In the American Horror Film , Tony Williams argues that "Kristen's death results from Elaine's complicity", and that Kristen thus "becomes a sacrificial offering in

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3968-527: Is now undead in the dream world like him. This "beautiful dream" concept would later be revisited in the Nightmares on Elm Street comics. As with Alice, Kristen's portrayal in The Dream Master differed little between the later drafts and what eventually made it into the film, with the exception of one omitted scene where Kristen faces Freddy in a dream the same night he killed Kincaid and Joey, taunting her for now being "Elm Street's last brat", while in

4092-500: Is set in 1964, and A Walton Easter , filmed in 1997, is set in 1969. The series began relating stories that occurred 39 years in the past and ended with its last reunion show set 28 years in the past. A continuity error exists in the final reunion movie about how many years John and Olivia are said to be married, counting back to the first episode. In this reunion movie, John and Olivia are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in 1969, which dates their wedding to 1929. However, in

4216-540: Is set in Walton's Mountain, a fictional mountain community in the fictitious Jefferson County, Virginia . The real place upon which the stories are based is the community of Schuyler in Nelson County, Virginia . The time period is from 1933 to 1946, during the Great Depression and World War II , during the presidential administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman . The year 1933

4340-530: Is shot down, while Olivia becomes a volunteer at the VA hospital and is seen less and less. She eventually develops tuberculosis and enters an Arizona sanatorium . Olivia's cousin, Rose Burton, moves in at the Walton house to look after the family. Two years later, John Sr. moves to Arizona to be with Olivia. Grandma appears in only a handful of episodes during the eighth season. She was usually said to be visiting relatives in nearby Buckingham County . Consistent with

4464-544: Is shown to be capable of daydreaming that she tears up the clothing of Sally, a classmate who made fun of her, and this happens in real life without Kristen having been near her in reality. Kristen mentions having, or having had, a brother in the script and Freddy ends up killing her mother in a scene reminiscent of the pool party scene in Freddy's Revenge . Furthermore, Kristen would be the last surviving patient and Elm Street child, as both Joey and Kincaid would have perished by

4588-568: Is suggested by a reference to the opening of the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago, a brief shot of an automobile registration, and it is divulged in episode 5 that the date is in the spring of 1933. The last episode of season one, "An Easter Story," is set in February – April 1934. The year 1934 takes two seasons to cover, while some successive years are covered over the course of

4712-696: The Dallas Observer called it a "two-hour plus fever dream", Michael Sragow of The New Yorker called the film a "compelling erotic nightmare", and Edward Guthman of the San Francisco Gate wrote a glowing review praising Arquette's performance, calling it the "strongest, most memorable performance [of the film]" and favourably comparing her double role to Kim Novak 's in Vertigo (1958). That same year, Arquette appeared in Nightwatch ,

4836-554: The Hitchcock film Psycho (1960), the apparent protagonist of the film, being killed off unexpectedly. The Waltons The Waltons is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II . It was created by Earl Hamner Jr. , based on his 1961 book Spencer's Mountain and the 1963 film of the same name . The series aired from 1972 to 1981. The television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

4960-742: The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 1973. Also in 1973 Richard Thomas won the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Michael Learned won the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series 3 times (1973, 1974, and 1976). Ellen Corby was also a three-time winner in the Supporting Actress category, winning in 1973, 1975, and 1976. Will Geer was awarded the Supporting Actor Emmy in 1975. Veteran actress Beulah Bondi won an Emmy in 1977 for Lead Actress in

5084-610: The SAG Award , Critics' Choice Television Award , and Golden Globe Award . She also received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie . In 2018, it was announced that Arquette would be starring in the Hulu series The Act . The series premiered in March 2019 to critical acclaim. For her performance, Arquette received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in

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5208-401: The "main character" in the music video for Dokken 's song " Dream Warriors " (1987), in which a haunted Kristen must summon the band in order to enlist their help in fighting Freddy Krueger. Clips of Tuesday Knight as Kristen from The Dream Master was also shown in the music video for Vinnie Vincent Invasion 's "Love Kills" (1988) from All Systems Go , which is also in the soundtrack for

5332-550: The "snake scene" is also briefly shown in another issue. Kristen Parker is a playable character in the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS game A Nightmare on Elm Street , not to be confused with the unrelated NES game by the same name. Independently of each other, both games are based upon the Dream Warriors film and concept. In the C64 game, Kristen character's unique ability is the 'power kick'. Patricia Arquette as Kristen appears as

5456-446: The 1982 TV movie Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn . (Goldsmith also scored several episodes of the first season, but the producers believed his TV movie theme was too gentle and requested he write a new theme for the series. ) The series was also commissioned in response to the rural purge that the networks in general and CBS specifically had done that eliminated most rural -themed shows in 1971, and

5580-522: The 1990s on CBS. The Waltons was produced by Lorimar Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution in syndication . The show's end sequence featured the family saying goodnight to one another before going to bed for the night. According to the BBC (which broadcast the series in the UK), "Goodnight, John-Boy" was one of the most common catchphrases of the 1970s. The main story

5704-629: The CBS series CSI: Cyber , a show about FBI agents who combat Internet-based crimes. On May 12, 2016, CBS canceled the series after two seasons, thus ending the CSI franchise. Arquette portrayed Tilly Mitchell in the Ben Stiller -directed Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora , which premiered on November 18, 2018. For the role, she gained weight, wore prosthetic teeth, and brown contact lenses. For her performance, she received critical acclaim and won

5828-537: The Dead (1999), and Holes (2003). From 2005 to 2011, she starred as a character based on the medium Allison DuBois in the supernatural drama series Medium , winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2005. For playing a single mother in the coming-of-age film Boyhood (2014), which was filmed from 2002 until 2014, Arquette won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Further success came for starring as

5952-567: The Dead in 1999). They separated after nine months, but acted as a couple in public until Cage filed for divorce in February 2000. She briefly dated Mark Rogowski . Arquette and actor Thomas Jane became engaged in 2002. Their daughter Harlow Olivia Calliope Jane was born on February 20, 2003. Arquette and Jane married on June 25, 2006, at the Palazzo Contarini in Venice , Italy. In January 2009, Arquette filed for divorce from Jane on

6076-532: The Parker's house, Alice, Rick and Elaine watches helplessly as Kristen's body roasts away, seemingly a bed-smoking accident in real life. Alice realizes afterwards that she has absorbed much of Kristen's personal traits as well, feeling an unexpected urge to smoke as Kristen did. Freddy later shows taunting visions of Kristen to Alice and Rick in their dreams, but her soul and many others are set free from Freddy's oppression by Alice when she defeats him. Likely due to

6200-542: The Robert Morgan Educational Center in Miami , Florida , to build shelters in Haiti from 20 used shipping containers, to provide housing to people displaced by the earthquake. Arquette participated in the 2017 Women's March against President Donald Trump . Kristen Parker Kristen Parker (Patricia Arquette) first appears in Dream Warriors in its opening scene in a nightmare, where

6324-635: The Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons ." In response, The Simpsons made a short animated segment for a repeat showing of the episode " Stark Raving Dad ", in which the family watches the speech, and Bart remarks, "Hey, we're just like the Waltons. We're prayin' for an end to the Depression, too." On November 28, 2021, The CW aired The Waltons: Homecoming , a remake of The Homecoming: A Christmas Story . Also set in 1933, this film features

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6448-455: The attack occurred and the day of the week on which the series was broadcast. The first three reunion movies ( A Wedding on Walton's Mountain , Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain , and A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain ), all produced in 1982, are set in 1947. Of the later reunions, A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion , filmed in 1993, is set in 1963, and revolves around President John F. Kennedy 's assassination. A Walton Wedding , made in 1995,

6572-531: The authenticity of Arquette's performance, highlighting that "Arquette [is] very believably distracted and infuriated". Flirting with Disaster grossed $ 14 million at the American box office and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival . Her second film released that year was the period drama The Secret Agent , an adaptation of Joseph Conrad 's 1907 novel of

6696-548: The box office against a $ 20 million budget, making the film a moderate financial success. Arquette's next film, Tiptoes , was released straight-to-DVD in the United States, despite a screening at the Sundance Film Festival . After the humdrum reception of Tiptoes , Arquette did not appear in another film until 2006's Fast Food Nation , directed by Richard Linklater . During these three years, she

6820-454: The changes done by the other scriptwriters and director reduced her to too much of a victim, while Knight's take on Kristen was more in line with how Craven had originally envisioned the character. In another interview, Knight talks about the subject of Kristen as a victim: Jake Dee of JoBlo.com admires the sheer boldness of killing Kristen off midway into The Dream Master , arguing that her death happened in spite of Tuesday Knight providing

6944-401: The distribution rights of The Waltons to Warner Bros. Television to avoid a lawsuit owing to the similarities between the series and the film Spencer's Mountain (1963), which Warner owned. Warner Bros. acquired Lorimar in 1989, and has continued to syndicate the series ever since. Reruns have aired in the U.S. since 1981 after the series was canceled from CBS so from 1981-1984 reruns of

7068-637: The early 1990s were in low budget and independent films, including Prayer of the Rollerboys (1990) as love interest of Corey Haim 's character, The Indian Runner (1991), which was the directorial debut of Sean Penn ; and the drama Inside Monkey Zetterland . In 1992, she won a CableACE Award for Best Lead Actress in a Mini-Series for her portrayal of a deaf girl with epilepsy in Wildflower , directed by Diane Keaton and also starring Reese Witherspoon . In her early career, Arquette received

7192-406: The effects of Ellen Corby's actual stroke, Grandma rarely speaks during the remainder of the series, usually limited to uttering brief one-or two-word lines such as "No!" or "Oh, boy!" Six feature-length movies were made after the series run. Set from 1947 to 1969, they aired between 1982 and 1997. The following is a brief summary of the main characters. See List of The Waltons characters for

7316-470: The end of the story, and the model of the 1428 Elm Street house that Kristen made in the film's opening would have been made by Joey instead, with the same outcome in regards to the end scene of the film. Both the original draft and the script for the theatrical film had an omitted end scene where Kristen and Dr. Neil Gordon talks about Nancy, implying that she now visits and protects them in their dreams, opposite of what Freddy had done and thus hinting that she

7440-530: The family. All four Walton boys enlist in the military. Mary Ellen's physician husband, Curtis "Curt" Willard, is sent to Pearl Harbor and is reported to have perished in the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. Years later, Mary Ellen hears of sightings of her "late" husband, investigates and finds him alive (played by another actor), but brooding over his war wounds and living under an assumed name. She divorces him and later remarries. John-Boy's military plane

7564-638: The fictional nearby town of Westham. He later goes to New York City to work as a journalist . During the latter half of the 1976–77 season, Grandma Esther Walton suffers a stroke and returns home shortly before the death of her husband, Grandpa Zeb Walton (reflecting Ellen Corby's real-life stroke and the death of Will Geer, the actors who portrayed those characters). During the series' last few years, Mary Ellen and Ben start their own families; Erin, Jason and John-Boy are married in later television movie sequels. Younger children Jim-Bob and Elizabeth struggle to find and cement true love. World War II deeply affects

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7688-404: The film she only encounters Freddy after Elaine drugs her. Steven Fierberg, cinematographer of The Dream Master , claims that there was a scene where Kristen would walk out of her own house only to find it having turned into the nightmare 1428 house and consequently encounters Freddy in a tunnel. He called it the "best sequence in the movie" and a "terrifying, great sequence", but explains that it

7812-405: The film was "odd, brilliant in places, but frustrating all the same," commenting that "Arquette shows real grit when the chips are down". Arquette appeared in three films in 1996, the first the comedy film Flirting with Disaster (1996), about a young man's cross-country pursuit to find his parents. Critical reception was largely positive, with Todd McCarthy of Variety praising the film and

7936-547: The film's most honest scenes is one in which they share an ambulance ride without sharing a word". Her next role was in the light-hearted comedy Little Nicky (2000), alongside Adam Sandler . Despite being a box office hit, the film received negative reviews, although Roger Ebert called it Sandler's best film to date. Following this, she starred in French-American comedy drama Human Nature (2001), written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry . The film

8060-577: The film, she plays Olivia Evans, a single mother who raises her two children mostly alone with the sometimes assistance of their father (played by Ethan Hawke ). The epic explores a 12-year scope. The film details the progression of her character's son, Mason, from ages 8 to 18. The film has received universal praise, with many critics calling it a "landmark film". Arquette received widespread acclaim for her performance. Critic Katie McDonahugh, writing for Salon , states "the role gave [Arquette] space to be all of these messy things at once, and her performance

8184-526: The film. The scene of Kristen being swallowed by the Freddy-snake in Dream Warriors was featured at the Freddy vs. Jason section at Halloween Horror Nights #25 in 2015. Kristen Parker has been featured in one action figure , in the series Cinema of Fear #1 from Mezco Toys, also depicting the aforementioned scene. Roy H. Wagner , the cinematographer for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors , re-created scenes featuring Kristen from his film in 2019 while using only an iPhone 11 Pro for

8308-474: The first episode of the series set in 1933 ("The Foundling"), John Boy is 17 years old and he has six brothers and sisters. The story is about the family of John Walton Jr. (known as John-Boy): his six siblings, his parents John and Olivia Walton, and paternal grandparents Zebulon "Zeb" and Esther Walton. John-Boy is the first of the seven children (15 years old in The Homecoming ; 17 at the beginning of

8432-407: The form of a giant grotesque snake, a terrified Kristen desperately pulls Nancy, the only staff member she truly trusts, into the dream world , and Nancy's unexpected appearance and attack distracts the monster long enough for the two to escape. After Phil and Jennifer dies in their sleep, in what appears to be accidents or suicide, Nancy explains to the five remaining patients and Dr. Neil Gordon that

8556-462: The genre that began her career, in Stigmata , a horror film, in the lead role. Produced on a budget of $ 29 million, the film was a box office success, grossing $ 50,046,268. Internationally the film earned $ 39,400,000 for a total worldwide gross $ 89,446,268. Critics were not as receptive of the film as audiences, with Roger Ebert remarking "possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism – from

8680-489: The grounds of irreconcilable differences , but the couple soon reconciled. Arquette withdrew the divorce petition on July 9, 2009. On August 13, 2010, Jane's representative announced that Arquette and Jane had decided to proceed with a divorce due to "irreconcilable differences". The divorce was finalized on July 1, 2011, and the two agreed to joint custody of their child. After the Haiti earthquake in 2010, Arquette and childhood friend Rosetta Millington-Getty formed GiveLove,

8804-442: The guise of her father, whom unknown to Nancy he had killed in real life while the 'dream warriors' were busy in the dream world. Neil succeeds in sprinkling Krueger's bones with holy water and he is seemingly vanquished in the dream world before he can murder Kristen as well. In tears, Kristen promises to send the dying Nancy into a "beautiful dream", and some time after, Kristen, Neil, Roland and Joey attends Nancy's funeral. By

8928-708: The horror genre and the Freddy franchise but I was chomping at the bit to try other things as an actor. —Arquette on why she didn't reprise her role as Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988). In 1987, Arquette's first starring roles included pregnant teenager Stacy in the television film Daddy, boarding school student Zero in Pretty Smart , and Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors , alongside Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger and Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson . She reprised her role as Kristen in

9052-574: The identity of the bogeyman is Freddy Krueger , a serial child killer whom their parents, including Nancy's, lynched and burned to death years ago, and his undead spirit is now after their children in their nightmares as revenge. Nancy concludes that Kristen has the ability to draw others into her dreams and that her gifts could be used to beat Krueger. After an unauthorized group hypnosis causes Joey to be captured by Krueger and rendered comatose, Nancy and Dr. Gordon are fired, which causes Kristen to go ballistic and consequently be sedated and sent to

9176-404: The life of Earl Hamner Jr. (who died in 2016) by featuring clips of interviews (once per episode) with him about his time involved with The Waltons during the breaks while its syndicated reruns aired from 3–5pm and again at 7pm. On January 27, 1992, then-President George H. W. Bush said, "We are going to keep on trying to strengthen the American family, to make American families a lot more like

9300-476: The little known Deeper than Deep , which was followed with the more family orientated Disney produced Holes , as Kissin' Kate Barlow. Based on the 1998 novel of the same title by Louis Sachar , Holes grossed $ 16,300,155 in its opening weekend, making #2 at the box office, behind Anger Management ' s second weekend. Holes would go on to gross a domestic total of $ 67,406,173 and an additional $ 4 million in international revenue, totaling $ 71,406,573 at

9424-589: The most popular hits of the event. Although the film had lackluster reviews, Arquette's performance as an American tourist in Burma during the 8888 Uprising was regarded as one of the work's strong points. Michael Sragow, writing for The New Yorker , stated "Arquette gives the kind of mighty physical performance usually delivered by men in existential action classics like "The Wages of Fear," but she suffuses it with something all her own - she's bulletproof yet vulnerable." Hal Hinson of The Washington Post remarked that

9548-526: The most recognition for her role as Alabama Whitman, a free-spirited, kind-hearted prostitute in Tony Scott 's True Romance (1993). The film was a moderate box office success but became a cultural landmark because of Quentin Tarantino 's screenplay, which preceded Pulp Fiction , although some critics were deterred by the graphic violence. In one scene, Arquette puts up a fierce physical struggle in

9672-441: The most regular attendees. In the signature scene that closes almost every episode, the family house is enveloped in darkness, save for 1, 2 or 3 lights in the upstairs bedroom windows. Through voice-overs, two or more characters make some brief comments related to that episode's events, and then bid each other goodnight, after which the lights go out. After completing high school, John-Boy attends fictional Boatwright University in

9796-520: The music video to Dokken 's Dream Warriors (1987). She was asked to reprise her role in the sequel, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), but she declined the offer in order to do other projects. She gave up the role of Tralala in Last Exit to Brooklyn due to her pregnancy with her son Enzo. In 1988, Arquette played the daughter of Tess Harper in Far North . Her roles in

9920-486: The new protagonist as quickly as possible, the official press kits from New Line Cinema for both The Dream Master and The Dream Child mysteriously references a plot element, of Kristen drawing Alice into a dream to face Freddy before the dream in which Kristen dies, resulting in Alice consequently helping Kristen to enlist the help of the others, that was entirely absent not only in the theatrical picture, but even from

10044-681: The north of Los Angeles. They would also occasionally film scenes in Franklin Canyon Park in Beverly Hills . Some sources indicate CBS put the show on its fall 1972 schedule in response to congressional hearings on the quality of television. Backlash from a 1971 decision to purge most rural-oriented shows from the network lineup may have also been a factor. The network gave The Waltons an undesirable timeslot – Thursdays at 8 p.m – opposite 2 popular programs: The Flip Wilson Show on NBC and The Mod Squad on ABC. "The rumor

10168-525: The older John-Boy, usually heard at the beginning and end of each episode. John-Boy Walton's fictional alma mater , Boatwright University, is patterned after Richmond College, which became part of the University of Richmond on Boatwright Drive near Westham Station in The West End of Richmond, Virginia , about 70 miles (110 km) east of Schuyler. The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)

10292-406: The production; in this re-creation Kristen is played by actress Taylor Kalupa . iJustine also got a shot at playing Kristen as a stand-in in her own behind-the-scenes feature of Wagner's project. Chuck Russell , director of Dream Warriors , said on Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy that "the cast member that stuck out with me was Patricia Arquette . That was her first film. There

10416-475: The quicksand: Kristen is sunken halfway into the sand, preventing escape. Freddy raises his claw as if to attack Kristen and the shadow of the claw BURNS BLISTERS onto her otherwise pale skin. Freddy saunters over, unaffected by the quicksand. He watches the girl struggle and laughs when her screaming mouth fills with sand as she SINKS BELOW THE SURFACE. Adding gravity to the suggestions of Fierberg, Harlin and Knight that New Line Cinema wanted Alice established as

10540-522: The quiet room for her outburst. While Neil and Nancy's father Donald go on a mission to give Krueger's remains a proper burial in reality, Nancy is granted one final meeting with the teenagers, and using group hypnosis they enter the dream world just as Kristen succumbs to the sedation. Taryn and Will are both killed by Krueger, while Nancy, Kristen and Roland succeeds in rescuing Joey and later seemingly defeats Krueger, but as Kristen watches in horror, he one-ups them by appearing to and fatally stabbing Nancy in

10664-555: The reason was Arquette's real life pregnancy with her son Enzo Rossi (January 3, 1989), the book Assault of the Killer B's: Interviews with 20 Cult Film Actresses states that "Patricia Arquette reportedly fought the [horror genre] label, turning down a hefty offer to reprise her heroine role, instead favoring more dramatic roles and becoming a respected thespian in the Hollywood community". Arquette confirmed herself in 2017 that this

10788-509: The recasting. Tuesday Knight was told by the producers to rewatch Dream Warriors to emulate its Kristen as much as possible, but Knight thought that Arquette's Kristen had been written and portrayed as too much of a "screamer" and victim and hoped to bring a little more strength of will to the character than the previous version. Thus, she decided to try to make the role her own instead of strictly emulating Arquette. Tuesday Knight auditioned before Renny Harlin, Bob Shaye and Rachel Talalay and

10912-723: The same name. The film received average reviews. Infinity was her third film that year, a biographical drama about the early life of American physicist Richard Feynman . The film received mixed to positive reviews. Although Emmanuel Levy of Variety said that Arquette was "miscast", he stated that she "registers more credibly in the first part of the film, when she plays an adolescent ". In 1997, Arquette starred in David Lynch 's neo-noir psychological thriller Lost Highway , in dual roles as Renee Madison and Alice Wakefield. The film had an ambiguous narrative, which polarized audiences and drew varying critical opinion, but it established

11036-417: The scenes I've ever done, it had the most gripping reality to it with Kristen and me in that final scene. I just find it so touching and it was a very, very real scene to shoot and we were very fond of each other so it was an easy. I feel that scene really stands out", and that "it's just so rare to get somebody who has laid out their whole soul like that and they're distressed so realistically, she just did such

11160-633: The series was broadcast on BBC 2 and BBC 1 and during the 1970s/1980s – the first three seasons were broadcast on BBC 2 from February 18, 1974, to May 17, 1976, on Mondays at 20.00 GMT, and seasons 4 and 5 were shown on BBC 1 from September 5, 1976, to August 30, 1977, on Sundays at 16.10 in 1976 and Tuesdays at 19.00 through 1977. After that, seasons 6–9 would be broadcast on BBC 2 again, starting on April 30, 1979, and concluding in April 1983. The three reunion TV movies filmed in 1982 were also shown on BBC 2 from December 21 to December 28, 1983. The show

11284-405: The series), who becomes a journalist and novelist. Each episode is narrated at the opening and closing by a middle-aged John Jr. (voiced by author Earl Hamner on whom John-Boy is based). John Sr., who quit his city job after the traumatic events in the pilot episode, manages to eke out a living for his family by operating a lumber mill with the help of his sons as they grow older. The family income

11408-627: The series, CBS produced the pilot film, which is why Paramount, under CBS Home Entertainment , handles home video rights for The Homecoming . German-release DVDs provide German or English soundtrack options, with dubbed German voices, or the original English soundtrack, although the German episode titles are not always either literal or precise translations of the original English-language titles. Seasons 1–9 are available via streaming in standard-definition as well as high-definition video through services such as Amazon Prime Video . The Waltons won

11532-776: The set was destroyed. For the reunion shows, a replica Waltons' house façade was built on the Here Come the Brides set on the Columbia Ranch studio, now part of the Warner Brothers studios. As of July 2023, the Waltons Columbia Ranch site has been built over with sound stages. For the first few seasons, the show would oftentimes shoot exterior scenes in Frazier Park , 70 miles (110 km) to

11656-414: The story of Bonnie and Clyde and Terrence Malick 's "love on the run" film Badlands (1973). It gave True Romance overall a favourable review for having "enough energy and verve to create something entirely fresh and infectiously entertaining". Richard Corliss of Time Magazine made similar statements and also likened the film to the earlier, seminal Bonnie and Clyde. Arquette next appeared in

11780-581: The subsequent backlash from fans of those shows that were still popular at the time of their cancelation. Patricia Neal (as Olivia) won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama . The movie was also nominated for 3 Emmys: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Neal), Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama - Adaptation (Earl Hamner), and Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama - A Single Program ( Fielder Cook ). The town of Walton's Mountain

11904-488: The television film Betrayed by Love (1994), and the well-received biopic Ed Wood , directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp , where she portrayed his girlfriend. Her next role was as Laura Bowman in John Boorman 's Beyond Rangoon (1995), which drew mixed critical reviews, but was a success internationally. In France, it was the official selection at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival , where it became one of

12028-418: The theatrical script and film, where Elaine is definitely single and apparently attempting to date various men, Kirk Parker would later appear in a flashback in the comic book A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning , the script of which refers to the couple as "rich snobs" and Elaine as "Kristen's bitchy mother". In the original script, in addition to the ability of bringing others into her dreams, Kristen

12152-412: The theme song and doubles its impact by ending the life of a protagonist and handing over the lead role to a new lead. Kristen was at 18 on Buzzfeed's top 25 list of final girls and on the top 10 final girls in the digital SCREAM magazine (in no particular order), which states that "Patricia Arquette's depiction of the role injects an impressive amount of gumption into the part; as she brings with her

12276-682: The time of The Dream Master , Kristen (Tuesday Knight) has returned to a seemingly normal life but experiences ominous, foreboding dreams that seem to constantly hint that Freddy Krueger is still around, although he does not directly show himself to her. In the sequel she has become a compulsive smoker in order to soothe herself. She is now romantically involved with classmate Rick Johnson and has also befriended his sister Alice , along with Sheila Kopecky and Debbie Stevens. Kristen's nocturnal anguish and paranoia causes her to repeatedly draw in fellow surviving dream warriors Roland Kincaid and Joey Crusel into her dreams on instinct whenever she feels threatened,

12400-580: The transitional nature of Kristen's character arc in regards to Nancy and Alice, Kristen has not appeared as an active part of expanded universe storylines like those two, but was mentioned and shown in flashbacks or cameos in the Nightmares on Elm Street and the non-canonical Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors comic book miniseries, and is mentioned by Elaine in the unfinished A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning miniseries. In Nightmares on Elm Street , Kristen wishing Nancy into

12524-412: The true protagonist narratively mirrors to some degree the events of the first film , where it quickly becomes evident that the heroine of the film is Nancy and not Tina Gray . Nat Brehmer on That's Not Current elaborates on the false protagonist dimension of Kristen in The Dream Master , arguing that Kristen's fate has also been compared to the plot twist of Janet Leigh 's character Marion Crane in

12648-560: The turmoil she is knocked unconscious and then dreams that the school nurse attending to her is Krueger, but is woken up by the real nurse before he can kill her. Now resigned to her inevitable doom, Kristen finally tells Alice, Rick and his friend Dan Jordan about Freddy Krueger at the former Thompson/Walsh house at 1428 Elm Street , now a decaying haunted house. They are interrupted by Kristen's mother Elaine, who calls her daughter home. There they have dinner together, but Kristen realizes that her mother had put sleeping pills into her milk in

12772-535: The two screenplay drafts available on the Internet: "They asked me to come back for 4 but at that time I was starting to break into kind of meatier roles. I had just done a movie of the week about teen pregnancy called Daddy and I was really liking getting deeper with my work. I love the horror genre and the Freddy franchise but I was chomping at the bit to try other things as an actor." — Patricia Arquette (2017) The role of Kristen Parker in Dream Warriors

12896-451: The waltons began airing on local television stations across the United States. And in 1984-1993 the show continued in reruns and by 1993-1998 the waltons reruns found a new home on the family channel later renamed fox family channel and then ABC family and later Free-form and by 1998-2002 it started airing on hallmark channel but now currently the show airs on MeTV and hallmark channel. In the UK,

13020-494: Was Jewish , and her ancestors emigrated from Poland and Russia. Her father's family's surname was originally "Arcouet", and his paternal line was of French-Canadian descent. Her paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette . Patricia's siblings also became actors: Rosanna , Richmond, Alexis , and David . When she was a child, her parents offered to get her braces for her teeth, but she refused, claiming she didn't want to look perfect and "it didn't feel like it would fit who I

13144-451: Was "hired on the spot". She would end up contributing the song Nightmare to the film's soundtrack but did not know until she watched The Dream Master in the theater that it been chosen to be the actual title/intro song. The master record of this song, previously thought for many years to have been lost or destroyed, has since been "uncovered in a box deep within the bowels of Warner Brothers " according to Knight. Knight would also have

13268-499: Was a raw, gutsy meditation on those profoundly human contradictions". Margaret Pomeranz , writing for ABC Australia , called Arquette's performance "stunning" and praised the film, further remarking that "the elision from one time to another is subtle and seamless. It's just a fabulous movie experience". Arquette won the Academy Award , BAFTA , Critics' Choice , Golden Globe , Independent Spirit , and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress. In early 2015, Arquette began starring in

13392-515: Was a teenager, she had wanted to be a nun. At the age of fourteen, Arquette ran away from home after learning her father was having an affair—she settled with her sister, Rosanna Arquette, in Los Angeles. She has described her father as a working actor for industrial films, commercials and voiceovers – he was best known for his role as J.D. Pickett in the TV series The Waltons . Before pursuing

13516-520: Was broadcast on December 19, 1971. Based on its success, the CBS television network ordered the first season of episodes (to be based on the same characters) and that became the television series The Waltons . Beginning in September 1972, the series was broadcast on CBS for nine seasons in total. After the series was canceled in 1981, three television film sequels aired in 1982 on NBC , with three more in

13640-659: Was built in the rear area of the main lot at Warner Bros. Studios, bordering the Los Angeles River , but the mountain itself was part of the Hollywood Hills range opposite Warner studios in Burbank, California , the reverse side of which, and slightly to the east, is Mount Lee and the Hollywood Sign . The Waltons house façade was built in the back of the Warner Brothers lot. After the series concluded,

13764-454: Was cut out in the last minute because "people were feeling it takes too long to get rid of Tuesday Knight and then establish Lisa Wilcox as the new heroine". This scene does exist as described in the screenplay, and a snippet from this, of Kristen saying "I knew you'd be back" can be seen in one of the trailers that was released for The Dream Master . According to Tuesday Knight, the boiler room scene where Kristen desperately summons Alice and

13888-541: Was in fact the case, and has also stated that director Chuck Russell had been very controlling of his actors but had apologized afterwards, while also mentioning the DP ( director of photography ) as having been "really horribly mean". Returning actors Eastman and Ken Sagoes expressed disappointment that the character of Kristen had to be recast and of the defaulted reunion with former co-star Arquette, while Tuesday Knight on her part has admitted to having felt out of place due to

14012-436: Was inside." For a time her family lived on a commune in rural Bentonville, Virginia . She has said they became poorer the longer they lived there and she believes that experience enlarged her empathy. Her father was an alcoholic; her mother was violently abusive. When Arquette was seven, the family relocated to Chicago. They later settled in Los Angeles, California. Arquette attended Catholic school, and has said that when she

14136-492: Was largely working on Boyhood; it was released eight years later in July 2014. Fast Food Nation marked her second collaboration with Linklater; it is based on the bestselling 2001 non-fiction book of the same name by Eric Schlosser . Fast Food Nation received mixed to positive critical reviews. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone awarded the film three out of four stars and added, "It's less an exposé of junk-food culture than

14260-423: Was met with mixed reviews and was screened out of competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival . Roger Ebert, in a three-star (out of a possible four) review, lauded the film's "screwball charm". The following year, she appeared in the small-scale mystery film The Badge , playing the widowed victim of a murdered transsexual woman. In 2003, she portrayed the controversial pornographic film star Linda Lovelace in

14384-400: Was met with negative reviews. In 2013, she returned to television, appearing on Boardwalk Empire as Sally Wheet. Also in 2013, Arquette filmed the true crime drama Electric Slide . In 2014, Boyhood was released, a project that Arquette and other actors had shot for 12 years beginning in 2002. The film was directed by Richard Linklater, marking his second collaboration with Arquette. In

14508-455: Was my responsibility." —Arquette on her refusal to get braces as a child for her crooked teeth. Arquette was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1968 to Lewis Arquette , an actor and puppeteer, and Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (née Nowak), who was involved in the arts and worked as a therapist . Through her father, Patricia is distantly related to explorer Meriwether Lewis . Arquette's father had converted from Catholicism to Islam . Arquette's mother

14632-469: Was not made as a pilot for a series, but it was so popular that it led to CBS initially commissioning one season of episodes based on the same characters, and the result was The Waltons . Except for the Walton children and Grandma Esther Walton, the characters were all recast for the TV series. The musical score was by Oscar -winning composer Jerry Goldsmith and was later released on an album by Film Score Monthly paired with James Horner 's score for

14756-601: Was reluctant to audition for the part of John Walton because he didn't want to be tied to a long-running TV series, but his agent persuaded him by saying, "It will never sell. You do the pilot. You pick up a couple of bucks and then you go back to New York." Following the cancelation of the series in 1981, a total of six reunion movies were released: A Wedding on Walton's Mountain (1982), Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain (1982), A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain (1982), A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion (1993), A Walton Wedding (1995), and A Walton Easter (1997). Lorimar sold

14880-468: Was repeated on Channel 4 between 1986 and 1991 and again from 1996 to 2000. It last aired on Sony Channel until March 31, 2020, in the UK. Warner Home Video has released all nine seasons and six TV movies of The Waltons on DVD in Region 1. Seasons 1–4 have been released in Region 2. The pilot movie, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story , was released by Paramount Home Entertainment . Lorimar produced

15004-462: Was something so interesting, so haunting about her. And I think that's always been a special gift for her in her other work as well." Producer Sara Risher claims that she was disappointed at the time that Arquette could not reprise her role, commending her as an "integral part to Nightmare 3" and as well-liked by the rest of the crew. Heather Langenkamp also praised Arquette, saying that "[Nancy's death scene is] one of my favourite scenes now out of all

15128-499: Was that they put it against Flip Wilson and The Mod Squad because they didn't think it would survive. They thought, 'We can just tell Congress America doesn't want to see this'," Kami Cotler , who played Elizabeth Walton, said in a 2012 interview. However, CBS had enough faith in the show to devise a full-page newspaper ad flanked with the show's positive reviews, urging people to watch the show. Radically increased ratings were attributed to this ad, saving The Waltons . Ralph Waite

15252-610: Was the debut role for Patricia Arquette . Arquette was reportedly close to being recast early into the filming of Dream Warriors , though director Chuck Russell recognized her qualities and vouched for her to the other producers, resulting in her staying. Arquette was replaced by actress Tuesday Knight for the sequel, The Dream Master . Neither Robert Shaye , Renny Harlin nor Robert Englund has expressed any definite reason for why Arquette did not come back, though Harlin and Rodney Eastman theorized that her agent might have asked for too much in salary. Though others speculates that

15376-524: Was with Patricia Arquette, he has also spoken highly of Knight in other interviews: According to Tuesday Knight, Wes Craven had, when calling her about a cameo in New Nightmare , expressed that he was a big fan of Knight's portrayal of Kristen and had expressed criticism of the writing for the Kristen of the theatrical Dream Warriors , explaining that he had written her to be more of a fighter but

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