Sleep with Me (1994)

Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's best friend Frank trying hard to cope ... See full summary »

Director:

Rory Kelly

Writers:

Duane Dell'Amico, Roger Hedden

Stars:

Craig Sheffer, Eric Stoltz, Meg Tilly

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Meg Tilly	...	Sarah
Eric Stoltz	...	Joseph
Craig Sheffer	...	Frank
Lewis Arquette	...	Minister
Todd Field	...	Duane
Susan Traylor	...	Deborah
Tegan West	...	Rory
Dean Cameron	...	Leo
Amaryllis Borrego	...	Amy
Thomas Gibson	...	Nigel
Parker Posey	...	Athena
Joey Lauren Adams	...	Lauren
Alida P. Field	...	Gina
Vanessa Angel	...	Marianne
June Lockhart	...	Caroline

Storyline

Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's best friend Frank trying hard to cope with letting the love of his life marry his best friend. Featuring Quentin Tarantino in a cameo as Sid, a movie-bore party goer

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Plot Keywords:

marriage | love | two men in love with the same woman | menage a trois | female nudity | 

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Taglines:

A romantic comedy brave enough to say those three magic words.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sexuality, language and drug use

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 November 1994 (France)

Also Known As:

Sleep with Me

Filming Locations:

Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Box Office

Gross USA:

$161,410

Company Credits

Production Co:

August Entertainment, Castleberg Productions, Paribas Film Corparation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Quentin Tarantino's famous 'Top Gun' speech was originally written by the filmmaker and his friend, Roger Avary, for another project. The speech is fully scripted word by word used by Tarantino.

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Goofs

In the opening scenes, the driver's side window of the car is open for close shots and closed for more distant shots.

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Quotes

Duane: Do you ever think that we have too much time on our hands? With all the advances made in extending the human life span, that perhaps nature's cruelest irony is that we get progressively stupider and stupider with each passing generation. I mean, some day we'll live for 300 years but we won't be able to sit still for 5 seconds... just a thought.

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Connections

Referenced in Pulp Fiction: The Facts (2002)

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Soundtracks

Wasted
Written by David Thomas (as Thomas) / Jim Jones (as Jones) / Tony Maimone (as Maimone) / Scott Krauss (as Krauss)
Produced by Al Clay
Performed by Pere Ubu
Courtesy of The Imago Recording Company

User Reviews

Officially my third favorite movie of all time and also my second favorite movie category.

That category being a movie about relationships, the undertone of being unfaithful and the small things about relationships which aren't covered by normal big romance movies. Realism, indie film-making, long shots and acting which looks like it's improvised makes a movie for me. I dunno, maybe this category of movies is really my all time favorite, the other being gangster movies and such because these movies speak to me... Social commentary about my life and my thoughts and my own relationships are all in this movie like they are in Chasing Amy, my second all time favorite movie of all time. Resrevoir Dogs, being THE gangster movie, is the first.

In my opinion this really is modern movie making at it's best. Watching films like this I feel like I'm seeing Man Bites Dog again for the first time. Like in one sequence, similar to another sequence in the movie Boogie Nights, there's a scene which lasts for many minutes and which is shot in only a few shots through the eye of an old black and white camcorder made the hairs on my arm stand up in awe. This is a key scene in the movie and I wont spoil it for you but if you've ever had a relationship and been in these sort of awkward social situations before then you will feel the pain of these characters and be totally in the movie the whole time you see it from beginning to end. Or like another scene where they are all at a very formal and "boring" party and Frank shows up and it all blows up in everyone's face. This, I think, was my favorite scene in the movie because of what happens in it, how it happens and what happens because of it.

There is of course also the Quentin Tarantino cameo which didn't escape my eye either. The movie is worth seeing just for that but the whole film still meant so much more to me than that.

I'll wrap this up now with a few things I wanna say about the whole set up of these people's lives. Some are in the movie writing business and some are in the landscaping business but what I found deeply interesting was that we never actually see them at work. It's all just worked into the dialogue of the film which I really liked because that is not the conventional way. Usually you'll have a few scenes of them at work to establish this but in stead this movie focuses completely and utterly on the characters... And what a wonderful set of characters they were.