The Sleepy Time Gal Reviews

When the film ended, I felt tired and drained and wanted to lie on my own deathbed for a while.

| Original Score: 1.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Bisset delivers a game performance, but she is unable to save the movie.

| Original Score: 2/4

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.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

A melancholy, emotional film.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Münch's genuine insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A captivating and intimate study about dying and loving...

Full Review | Original Score: A

From the dull, surreal ache of mortal awareness emerges a radiant character portrait.

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It's delicate, haunting and sultry.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Its rhythms and currents sink into a viewer's consciousness and linger in the mind.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Playing a role of almost Bergmanesque intensity ... Bisset is both convincing and radiant.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

To the film's credit, the acting is fresh and unselfconscious, and Munch is a marvel of reality versus sappy sentiment.

Full Review | Original Score: 75/100

It has a subtle way of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over.

| Original Score: 3/4

A thoughtful, moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Bisset still commands the screen as the graceful and outspoken Frances.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Excellent performances from Jacqueline Bisset and Martha Plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Doesn't reach for the obvious buttons that a weepy mainstream cancer film, like 'Stepmom' or 'Life As a House,' would push.

| Original Score: 6/10

Full Review | Original Score: 75/100

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