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Two women connected by family are drawn closer by fate in this low-key drama. Frances (Jacqueline Bisset) is a woman in her early fifties who had already begun to sense time was running out for her when she learned that she has cancer. While Frances is fighting the disease through medical treatment, she decides it's a good idea to do some travelling before it's too late, and she pays a visit to Bob (Seymour Cassel), a former boyfriend who now owns a farm in rural Pennsylvania. To Bob's surprise,
Jan 1, 2001 Wide
Jan 28, 2003
C-100 Film Corporation
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Munch's screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters. He watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities. His scenes are short and often unexpected.
Playing a role of almost Bergmanesque intensity ... Bisset is both convincing and radiant.
A thoughtful, moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty.
Its rhythms and currents sink into a viewer's consciousness and linger in the mind.
It's delicate, haunting and sultry.
Bisset delivers a game performance, but she is unable to save the movie.
A captivating and intimate study about dying and loving...
It has a subtle way of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over.
Doesn't reach for the obvious buttons that a weepy mainstream cancer film, like 'Stepmom' or 'Life As a House,' would push.
Although sensitive to a fault, it's often overwritten, with a surfeit of weighty revelations, flowery dialogue, and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken.
When the film ended, I felt tired and drained and wanted to lie on my own deathbed for a while.
Bisset still commands the screen as the graceful and outspoken Frances.
Excellent performances from Jacqueline Bisset and Martha Plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama.
To the film's credit, the acting is fresh and unselfconscious, and Munch is a marvel of reality versus sappy sentiment.
Laconic and very stilted in its dialogue, this indie flick never found its audience, probably because it's extremely hard to relate to any of the characters.
Sleepy Time Gal is one of those brilliant films that could only be part of American indie cinema. Frances, a mother, former writer and DJ, and lover of architecture and history, discovers she has terminal cancer, and so aims to tie up the loose ends of her life and spend time with her son. Meanwhile, in a different
April 17, 2007Super Reviewer
Very depressing film, beautifully acted, especially by Jacqueline Bisset and Nick Stahl. Very well written, fine score, but again a real bummer. Director Christopher Munch skillfully intertwines the characters. Well done.
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