Sleepwalking is an unfortunate title for a movie that appears to be doing just that.
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03/13/08
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Sleepwalking (2008)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:10
Rotten:47
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Despite some sharp performances, Sleepwalking suffers from a grimness of tone and sluggish pacing.
Theatrical Release:Mar 14, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Nick Stahl (Sin City, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines), AnnaSophia Robb (Bridge to Terabithia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron (Monster, North... [More]
Starring: Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Hopper
Director: William Maher
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Reviews for Sleepwalking
Sleepwalking provides character arcs for its two protagonists but neither is as interesting or memorable as the performances warrant.
03/21/08
Top CriticThere's an inescapable sense that we've seen this sort of dysfunctional family indie drama before, but ... Sleepwalking ultimately emerges as a solid example of the genre.
03/13/08
We come to realize the trip isn't taking us very far and the engine of sympathy is running on vapor.
03/11/08
Dennis Hopper just co-starred with Rainn Wilson in a parody of indie movie cliches for the Independent Spirit Awards broadcast, and, as it turns out, several scenes from his latest movie could have been included.
03/13/08
Terrific performances and a bleak, riveting look at life on the economic fringes eventually gives way to an overly familiar tale of abuse, denial and catharsis that feels like warmed over Sam Shepard minus the poetry.
03/14/08
Top CriticThe let's-take-a-road-trip method of character healing has been done to death, but unlike Little Miss Sunshine, James & Tara are made up of more than just cute quirks.
06/04/08
This is a breakthrough performance [for AnnaSophia Robb] that should do wonders for her career.
01/22/08
Top CriticThe direction is hackneyed with all-ponderous close-ups to guess the character's 'deep,' inner thoughts. It was unquestionably 'sleepwalking,' which is a perfect description of any audience member who chooses to walk out on this one.
03/13/08
The actors' Herculean effort to extract meaning from their characters provides a few moments of relief from this troublesome story.
03/10/08
If you had programmed a computer to come up with a movie that is nothing but a string of the deadliest indie-film situations and moods, you'd have Sleepwalking, a soporific dud, which should have been tossed out of Sundance.
03/12/08
Top CriticEach bend in the road positively screeches with the urgency of impending catharsis, but the film never earns its resolution.
08/08/09
Relentlessly downbeat, with a glimmer of a payoff in the last couple of scenes, Sleepwalking is a film that has 'indie' written all over it -- for better and for worse.
03/13/08
Top CriticThe transparently familiar issues -- abuse, unemployment, parental neglect, promiscuity -- are stapled onto characters who never seem credible.
03/14/08
Top CriticIt's all too aptly named.
03/21/08
The cast performs gamely in this grim and gray affair, but with Stanford's words and dead end story, the actors never really stood a chance.
03/14/08
Filmed mostly in winter, in browns, grays and soiled whites, Sleepwalking sustains a mood of unrelenting bleakness, wearing its aesthetic of desolation like a badge of integrity.
03/14/08
Top CriticAn inert, sloppily written melodrama as grim and featureless as its frozen Midwestern setting.
03/13/08
Top CriticSaddled with a title all too true to its somnambulist pace, Sleepwalking is a textbook case of a bad movie partially redeemed by good acting.
03/14/08
Top Critic[V]isually impressive but naratively underpowered...
03/14/08
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