The Perfect Sleep (2009)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Jeremy Alter

Writer:

Anton Pardoe (writer)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Against the backdrop of a noirish dreamscape, a tortured man returns to the city he swore he would never return to...

Plot Keywords:

Masochist | Title Spoken By Narrator | Drug Addicted Doctor | Sadistic Doctor | Revenge Motive

Cast

Anton Pardoe	...	The Narrator
Roselyn Sanchez	...	Porphyria
Patrick Bauchau	...	Nikolai
Peter J. Lucas	...	Ivan
Tony Amendola	...	Dr. Sebastian
Sam Thakur	...	The Rajah
Dominiquie Vandenberg	...	Keller
Cameron Daddo	...	Rogozhin
Michael Paré	...	Officer Pavlovich
Isaac C. Singleton Jr.	...	Gregor
John Fleck	...	Van Heflin
Dmitri S. Boudrine	...	Kolya
Anthony Dilio	...	Walter (as Anthony Dee)
Keith Allan	...	The Doctor
Pavel Lychnikoff	...	Vassily (as Pasha Lynchnikoff)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, some language and brief drug use.

Runtime:

Germany:99 min (European Film Market)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Netherlands:16

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Unified Pictures

Goofs:

Continuity: At about ten minutes and eighteen seconds into the film, The Narrator is awoken by a car horn outside the "warehouse". He gets up, on his knees, using the cane for support. Then the camera switches to a shot of Walter laying on the ground, his cane visible and also lying on the ground. In the next shot, Walter's cane is in The Narrator's hand again.

Quotes:

The Narrator: For the first time in my life I feel like I've been part of a job well done. The operative word being *done*.

Soundtrack:

The Haunted Theater

The most self indulgent film I have ever seen.

Imagine Diane from Cheers, the self centered over intellectualizing character, now imagine she was trying to make a film moire movie. This would be it. If you just looked at some of the shots without any sound you would think Hmmm.. this could be a good film.

Now if you turn on the sound and listen for anytime at all you quickly realize that the person that made the film knows nothing about films beyond what they read in a book. I was continually thinking is this thing a foreign film, it was that bad.

If you don't remember Cheers, then think of Mr. Beans Holiday... remember the DeFoe character that made the horrible movie... well imagine that horrible movie without Mr. Bean saving it. That is what this movie is. I'm not saying anything about what the movie is other than it is an attempt to make a dark moody film about a hit-man going back home.... at least that's about all I could get out of it.