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Waking Life (2001) 7.5
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7.5/10 from 32,458 users
Metascore: 82/100
Reviews: 485 user | 128 critic | 31 from Metacritic.com A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe. Director:Richard LinklaterWriter:Richard Linklater |
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Young Boy Playing Paper Game
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Young Girl Playing Paper Game
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Glover Gill | ... |
Accordion Player
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Lara Hicks | ... |
Violin Player
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Ames Asbell | ... |
Viola Player
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Leigh Mahoney | ... |
Viola Player
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Cello Player
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Jeanine Attaway | ... |
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Boat Car Guy
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Philosophy Professor
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Herself
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Shape-Shifting Man
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Burning Man
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Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself? Waking Life follows the dream(s) of one man and his attempt to find and discern the absolute difference between waking life and the dreamworld. While trying to figure out a way to wake up, he runs into many people on his way; some of which offer one sentence asides on life, others delving deeply into existential questions and life's mysteries. We become the main character. It becomes our dream and our questions being asked and answered. Can we control our dreams? What are they telling us about life? About death? About ourselves and where we come from and where we are going? The film does not answer all these for us. Instead, it inspires us to ask the questions and find the answers ourselves. Written by Jeff Mellinger <jmell@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for language and some violent images | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
7 March 2002 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
Acordar para a Vida See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$88,977 (USA) (19 October 2001)Gross:
$2,892,011 (USA) (26 April 2002)Company Credits
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1.85 : 1
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Performed by TOSCA
Written by Glover Gill
Courtesy of Nois Records
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Did You Know?
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The movie took 3 weeks to shoot and another 3 weeks to edit using Final Cut Pro. It also took 15 months to animate. See more »Quotes
Alex Jones: We have got to realize that we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state.See more »
Crazy Credits
The end credits are all rendered in moving, squirming letters. See more »Soundtracks
"La Cosa Pequeña"Performed by TOSCA
Written by Glover Gill
Courtesy of Nois Records
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Okay, i haven't read any comments yet, but a lot of the "one line summaries" sound negative. I just finished watching this film, and registered an account with IMDb solely to speak of this film. These are the types of movies that we should be expecting from filmmakers today. Aren't we all tired of the blockbuster bullshit by now? True, it's not a "typical movie" and yes...it is a cartoon. But, the style is completely unique and entirely necessary for the story. If it were simply caught on film and released in that same manor, it would not have had the monstrous effect that it had, and it would not have come across in a way that would retain the interest of this generation's ADD youth (which SHOULD be it's primary demographic...they are the ones who can still change this world, and create the paradigm shift that is necessary) This movie is the fiber of all life, it IS that collective unconscious from which we all draw our own, personal beings. It explains the philosophies of years gone by and minutes gone by in a way that anyone could understand them. While I know that some closed minded people are going to be scared and confused by all of this necessary information, if only one mind is opened because of it, I know that Richard Linklater would be greatly pleased.