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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
The film is a dissection of damaged goods, but in place of a steady hand guiding matters to believable and sympathetic ends, director Bill Maher (not that one) takes the picture to unwanted extremes of behavior and guilt.
Well-intentioned to a fault, Sleepwalking blurs the line between dramatizing free-floating misery and spreading it.
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.
An inert, sloppily written melodrama as grim and featureless as its frozen Midwestern setting.
A small-scale family drama that walks the walk, but doesn't seem to know where it's going half the time.
There'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.
Mature adult drama sinks under its own weight.
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.
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.
Top CriticWhen you see how hopeless the lives of the American people have become in endless independent films that drive the movie audience away in mobs, you understand why the big, dumb action comics and Will Ferrell alleged comedies make all the money.
Top CriticSleepwalking stands as a heartening reminder that the future of American cinema may rest with those independent filmmakers working far from the bottom-line executives heading the shattered remnants of the old Hollywood studios.
Top CriticWe come to realize the trip isn't taking us very far and the engine of sympathy is running on vapor.
Theron and Woody Harrelson (as James's party pal Randall) provide vitality against the film's heavy load, but they aren't around long enough to keep it from collapsing under its own portentous weight.
Top CriticThe actors' Herculean effort to extract meaning from their characters provides a few moments of relief from this troublesome story.
Every line is a Big Statement, every character has exactly one defining quality, and every plot development is cornier than the last.
As the abusive patriarch, Dennis Hopper gives such an atrocious, one-dimensional performance that he completely throws out of balance a family melodrama that has few artistic or psychological merits to begin with.
This is a breakthrough performance [for AnnaSophia Robb] that should do wonders for her career.
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July 04, 2008:
Taking its cue from the tabloids, this is yet another addition to that tacky category of scandal sheet cinema. Why do celebrities with charmed Hollywood lives imagine everyday people as a bunch of sleazy or dimwitted degenerates, misfits and assassins. 
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March 14, 2008:
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