Sleepwalk With Me (2012)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 89 | Rotten: 17
Laugh-out-loud funny and endearingly messy, Sleepwalk with Me overcomes its tonal inconsistencies to deliver a sweetly melancholic, amiably reassuring indie crowd-pleaser.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 4
Laugh-out-loud funny and endearingly messy, Sleepwalk with Me overcomes its tonal inconsistencies to deliver a sweetly melancholic, amiably reassuring indie crowd-pleaser.
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"I'm going to tell you a story, and it's true....I always have to tell people that." So asserts comedian-turned-playwright-turned-filmmaker Mike Birbiglia directly to the viewer at the outset of his autobiographically inspired, fictional feature debut. Birbiglia wears his incisive wit on his sleeve while portraying a cinematic surrogate. We are thrust into the tale of a burgeoning stand-up comedian struggling with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship threatening to race out of
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All Critics (106) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (89) | Rotten (17)
From start to finish, his character, called Matt Pandamiglio, is all by his lonesome -- reaching out of the fog. He's a funny fog person.
Top CriticThe film acts as both a diary of a sidewinding comic stylist finding his style, almost by accident, and a reminder to all post-collegiate boyfriends and girlfriends that "OK" probably isn't good enough for either party.
This is a movie for anyone who's ever been unsure, and surely that's everyone.
Notwithstanding its storytelling stumbles, "Sleepwalk With Me" points in a positive direction for this likable comedian's career.
A smart, neurotic slice-of-life comedy about a stand-up comic with confidence issues, commitment issues, and career issues.
Birbiglia's pleasingly nasal delivery and agreeable presence holds it together.
Birbiglia humbly finds gold in his unassuming story.
However, there's something ultimately unsatisfying about the experience of listening to stand-up comedian Mike Birbiglia tell the true story of his inability to marry his longtime girlfriend (played by the far-too-hot-to-be-with-him Lauren Ambrose).
The mix of broad laughs and excruciating truths makes for a highly watchable and intuitive experience.
A riotous breakthrough for Mike Birbiglia, whose humanist comedy says a lot about modern relationships that many of us won't be prepared to admit.
Walking a fine line between darkly compassionate comedy, biting reality, striking low-budget fantasy and harsh psychological honesty, this modest but most disarming offering from funnyman Birbiglia is one of those pics that unexpectedly grows on you.
Though the sleep-walking episodes are funny, it's the way Mike Birbiglia captures the pains of performing comedy to tiny rooms that really fly.
As entertaining as the movie can be, it's the smaller, more poignant material in between the big laughs that makes the final product so charming.
It takes a while to find its feet but Sleepwalk With Me develops into an interesting film about an interesting person.
...just like the most memorable stand-up routines, there's a twinge of tragedy and pathos in the mix that make the laughs linger and the story stick.
Really, this film lives or dies on the charm of its protagonist. Luckily, Birbiglia is very charming indeed.
I guess there are only so many times you can tell a story - even a great story - before even you are tired of hearing it.
Sleepwalk With Me is implausibly appealing. The idea of someone not liking this picture is implausible. It would be without plause.
The idea of the man-boy who can't commit is rather '90s, and neither the film's narrative nor style brings it forward two decades, to where it should be.
Moments of comedy and drama are preserved, but even at 81 minutes the film seems a tad long
Based on an off-Broadway play and novel, the humour is cumulative, emanating from the characters and situations and resulting in a bubbling feel-good snapshot of life from the view point of an aspiring comic with an oddball slant on things
Sleepwalk With Me is a disposably sweet 'Annie Hall' rehash that achieves its minor ambitions with unremarkable efficiency.
A film that expertly paddles through the complicated subconscious and repressed feelings of a faltering comedian
So do hang on and tough it out through the early awkwardness: once the truth starts hitting the fan/fans...it's a production that no one will sleep through.
Audience Reviews for Sleepwalk With Me
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- Matt: We almost spent the entire rest of our lives together because we didn't want to make the other person mad.
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- Matt: Nice shirt loser...
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- Matt: There's a jackal in the road!
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