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Sleepwalking (2008) 6.1
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Reviews: 28 user | 50 critic | 24 from Metacritic.com The drama follows a 12-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment. Director:Bill MaherWriter:Zac Stanford |
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Darlene
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James "Speedy" Reedy is anything but. He's a twenty-something slacker sleepwalking through life in a Midwestern town. His older sister, Joleen calls him in the middle of the night after the police have arrested her boyfriend and tossed her and her 12-year-old daughter Tara on the street. James takes them in, then Joleen, who claims to have a plan, leaves with a trucker and a stash of drug money. James tries to cope, but soon he's lost his job, and child protective services places Tara in foster care. She's miserable. Can James wake up and find a way to be more than just a nice guy? A road trip to his childhood may hold a key, or it may be another bad dream. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Rated R for language and a scene of violence | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
14 February 2008 (Canada) See more »Also Known As:
Ferris Wheel See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$47,762 (USA) (14 March 2008)Gross:
$168,972 (USA) (16 May 2008)Company Credits
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Denver and Delilah Productions, FilmEngine, Infinity Features Entertainment See more »
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Written by Alison Sudol, Hal Cragin, Lukas Burton
Performed by Alison Sudol (as A Fine Frenzy)
Courtesy of Virgin Records America
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music
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The working title for this production was 'Ferris Wheel'. See more »Quotes
Tara: [to James] We'll need fake names. So we won't get caught. I'll be Nicole, and I want to be thirteen years old. 'Cause being twelve is stupid.See more »
Soundtracks
"Come on Come Out"Written by Alison Sudol, Hal Cragin, Lukas Burton
Performed by Alison Sudol (as A Fine Frenzy)
Courtesy of Virgin Records America
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music
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You hate to take shots at a film like "Sleepwalking", which was obviously a labor of love for producer Charlize Theron, who called in a lot of favors and assembled a first-rate cast and crew to make this film. But as Yogi Berra once said: "If you don't know where you are going, you'll probably end up someplace else". Apparently there was so much self-delusion going into the project that no one grasped the slow motion train wreck that this film would become after a very promising first 30 minutes.
If nothing else "Sleepwalking" illustrates that the constraining factor limiting the supply of "good" films is in the pre-production area, where producers must grasp at straws in a field of totally lame scripts in the hope that a lot of hard work in the production and post-production phases can make something out of nothing.
"Sleepwalking" could be described as a sanitized version of Terry Gilliam's "Tideland" (2005). Both films are about a young person dealing with an especially traumatic childhood environment and there are a lot of production design similarities. But "Sleepwalking" trades "Tideland's" American Gothic "Alice in Wonderland" quality for a somewhat muddled but very sincere and gritty redemption theme.
This effectively eliminates "Tideland's" off-kilter fans as likely viewers and leaves one wondering who might find the last hour of the film worthwhile viewing. Maybe longtime fans of Joni Mtichell's "Blue" album could tap into it during periods of sedation. Mitchell's comments about her album fit quite nicely into a discussion of "Sleepwalking": "The Blue album, there's hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn't pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there either."
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.