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6.4/10   1,247 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Michael Walker (writer)
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Release Date:
16 May 2001 (France) more
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Tagline:
The nightmare begins when you open your eyes...
Plot:
A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance. | full synopsis
Awards:
2 wins more
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Ahhh! To sleep,perchance to nightmare... more (50 total)

Cast

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Jeff Daniels ... Ed Saxon
Emily Bergl ... Sadie

Gil Bellows ... Det. Derm

Zach Grenier ... Geoffrey Costas

Julian McMahon ... George

Ben Shenkman ... Officer Stewart
Molly Price ... Susie

Patrick Moug ... Det. Snyder
Jeff Solano ... Arguing neighbor / Screwing neighbor
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Michelle Held ... Mrs. Mastrioni
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Insomnies (Canada: French title) (France)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language, violence, some sexuality and drug content.
Runtime:
104 min
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Factual errors: When the doctor comes to visit Ed Saxon, he says: "I'm not a physician, I'm a psychiatrist." In order to become a psychiatrist, one must first be trained as a physician, then receive additional training in psychiatry. Therefore, all psychiatrists are physicians. more

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11 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
Ahhh! To sleep,perchance to nightmare..., 22 November 2001
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Author: LilsZoo2 from Atlanta, GA

Married Professor(Jeff Daniels) awakes from the only sleep we see, to find his wife missing. Only thing is, he's missing time, too. He's been severely sleep deprived before we even enter the scene and the wreckage that's been left behind is all we have to follow. It's an excruciating journey into a mind unraveling from a crime, too unbelievable and too horrific to be possible. The film also makes good comment on a Society so pill-laden, that the use of psycho-tropic drugs is common place and is used to deal with our day to day existence rather than with our real emotional selves. Our Professor, who, never leaves his downtrodden, filthy household is a representation of the stultifying damage that can occur during severe depression. And that the fragile thing that keeps us all connected, can be damaged, even if by only one other, in deep despair.

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