SWEET DREAMS Trailer (2024) Kate Upton, Johnny Knoxville

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Johnny Knoxville takes on a new role in Sweet Dreams, showing a different side to his talent beyond his stunt comedy persona.
The film follows Morris, an alcoholic in rehab, coaching a softball team of recovering addicts for a chance at redemption.
Sweet Dreams boasts a star-studded cast including Kate Upton, Jay Mohr, and more, directed by Lije Sarki.
Johnny Knoxville is best known for his death-defying, painful stunts throughout the Jackass series. But he is ready to take on a different type of role in the newly released trailer for Paramount Pictures' Sweet Dreams, a comedy-drama film following the journey of a alcoholic man who enters rehab. The film will be released in theaters and digital this April.

The film stars Knoxville as Morris, a problematic alcoholic who finds himself at the Sweet Dreams recovery center. While in rehab, Morris struggles to confront the wreckage of his life. But when their rehab facility's house goes up for auction, he reluctantly agrees to coach their misfit softball team of recovering addicts to win a cash prize and prove that everyone, despite their past, can hit a home run. "I'm going to need you to contribute, be an asset, and teach these guys something," Morris is told in the trailer. While the trailer depicts Morris' problems with alcohol, it soon becomes clear that he is a talented softball player. As his rehab center eventually enters a softball tournament with an $80,000 prize, Morris attempts to save the house and also give those living inside it a second chance.

Beyond Knoxville, Sweet Dreams also stars Kate Upton, Jay Mohr, Mo Amer, GaTa, Bobby Lee, Theo Von, Brian Van Holt, Jonnie Park, Shakewell, Adam Faison, Erik Anthony Gonzalez, and Beth Grant. The film is directed and produced by Lije Sarki from a self-written script. Sarki is best known for producing the 2019 indie hit The Peanut Butter Falcon, starring Shia LaBeouf, Zach Gottsagen, and Dakota Johnson.

'Sweet Dreams' is a New Type of Role for Knoxville
While Sweet Dreams does have comedic elements, it marks a rarely seen side of Knoxville. While he has been featured in a number of films, it was his starring role on the stunt comedy show Jackass that brought Knoxville worldwide fame. First premiering in 2000, the show featured Knoxville and other members of the Jackass group performing painful stunts and pranks on each other.

The Jackass franchise has become wildly successful, spawning numerous feature-length films starring Knoxville, with the latest being Jackass 4.5 in 2022. However, Knoxville has acknowledged that while Sweet Dreams is a different type of film for him, the process was an emotional one for many of the people working on it. "One of the great things about this movie is that a lot of the actors and a good portion of the crew are all recovering addicts," Knoxville told People. "They fought the dragon, got it under control and now are living their lives."

Sweet Dreams will be released in theaters in the U.S. on April 12 and on digital on April 16.

Johnny Knoxville is on the bumpy road to recovery in his heartwarming new movie.

In Sweet Dreams, the actor shows off his dramatic chops as Morris, who “struggles to confront the wreckage of his life,” per a synopsis.

In the first trailer, debuting exclusively with PEOPLE, Knoxville is seen in the "wild and off-the-wall journey of second chances” alongside costars Mo Amer, Theo Von, GaTa, Jay Mohr, Bobby Lee, Kate Upton and more.

When his rehab facility, the Sweet Dreams recovery center, goes up for auction, Knoxville’s character “reluctantly agrees to coach their misfit softball team of recovering addicts to win a cash prize and prove that everyone, despite their past, can hit a home run.”

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Johnny Knoxville in "Sweet Dreams". PARAMOUNT
Sweet Dreams comes from Paramount Pictures and writer-director-producer Lije Sarki, who “feels every ounce of whatever is happening on the set,” Knoxville, 53, tells PEOPLE. The filmmaker behind 2019's The Peanut Butter Falcon “is very tuned into the actors," he says.
That’s no easy task when a set is populated by an ensemble as funny as this one, adds Knoxville.

“The cast was filled with comedians, so that keeps things pretty light,” the Jackass alum recalls. “Bobby Lee was always saying funny s---. Mo Amer is obviously damn funny and extremely talented as well.”

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"Sweet Dreams". PARAMOUNT
The trailer offers glimpses of the dubious softball skills in that goofy cast, many members of which play addicts in recovery — and are such in real life.

“One of the great things about this movie is that a lot of the actors and a good portion of the crew are all recovering addicts,” Knoxville says. “They fought the dragon, got it under control and now are living their lives.”

Doing so is “not easy,” he adds. “It might be the least easy thing you ever do. But if you’re struggling, you can get your life back.”

He continues, “That’s the message in the movie too. My character fights the dragon to get his life and his daughter back. And a lot of the cast and crew on this film are living proof this can happen.”

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"Sweet Dreams". PARAMOUNT
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Knoxville’s eldest of three children was on the set of Sweet Dreams too, as a crew member. “In the scenes where I would listen to a message from my daughter on the phone, she would read the message out loud in real time,” he tells PEOPLE.

“It made me break down every time," says Knoxville. "No acting involved there, just a father crying at the sound of his daughter’s voice as she reads a heartbreaking message to him.”

Sweet Dreams is in theaters April 12 and on digital April 16.
"You got 10 guys that need this place." Paramount has revealed an official trailer for a sports comedy called Sweet Dreams, a new film directed by the producer of sleeper hit The Peanut Butter Falcon previously. Opening in theaters in April this spring to enjoy. This fresh new comedy is a wild journey of second chances. Forced into rehab, Morris agrees to coach a misfit softball team of recovering addicts from his own house to prove that everyone, despite their past, can hit a home run. And maybe he will get his own life back on track, too. Johnny Knoxville stars as Morris, with an ensemble cast featuring Mo Amer, GaTa, Bobby Lee, Theo Von, Brian Van Holt, Jonnie Park, Shakewell, Adam Faison, plus Jay Mohr & Kate Upton. This doesn't look like it has the most original script, but it still does seem quite wholesome and amusing in an obnoxiously entertaining way. This trailer comes across much more sentimental than all-out humorous.

Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Lije Sarki's Sweet Dreams, direct from Paramount's YouTube:

Sweet Dreams Poster

Johnny Knoxville, Mo Amer, Theo Von, and Kate Upton unite in this wild & off-the-wall journey of second chances from the producer of The Peanut Butter Falcon. Forced into rehab at Sweet Dreams recovery center, Morris (Knoxville) struggles to confront the wreckage of his life. But when their house goes up for auction, he reluctantly agrees to coach their misfit softball team of recovering addicts to win a cash prize and prove that everyone, despite their past, can hit a home run. Sweet Dreams is written and directed by American indie producer / filmmaker Lije Sarki, director of the film Concrete Kids and a few other shorts, and a producer on The Peanut Butter Falcon, The Line, and many other films previously. It's produced by Robert Ogden Barnum, Ari Basile, Lucas Jarach, and Lije Sarki. Paramount Pictures opens Sweet Dreams