Each bend in the road positively screeches with the urgency of impending catharsis, but the film never earns its resolution.
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08/08/09
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.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Feb 2, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $0
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
Reviews for Sleepwalking
The movie seems unusually honest in portraying the no-option existence of the working poor, but the story slips into melodrama in the last reel.
12/08/08
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.
07/04/08
If you enjoyed MONSTER'S BALL (it's not as good as that one however), you might find yourself pulled in by this moving drama.
06/18/08
The 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
Theron sneaks out the door roughly 1/2 an hour into the picture. What is the movie to do without her energy?
05/15/08
Sleepwalking seems especially cruel to dwell on the bleak and cold at this time of year, when icy drizzle saturates the bones.
04/11/08
...a lifeless movie about uninteresting people.
03/25/08
Stylistically strange, sluggish and ultimately unsatisfying domestic drama.
03/25/08
It’s a film of mood -- and the mood is perfectly captured.
03/24/08
Top CriticIt's all too aptly named.
03/21/08
Sleepwalking provides character arcs for its two protagonists but neither is as interesting or memorable as the performances warrant.
03/21/08
A girl abandoned by her mother, a father unable to offer anything but hatred to his own children -- these are narrative elements of potentially great force, but they play out here without much shape, definition or power.
03/21/08
The movie is so overly familiar, and its take on the dysfunctional family dynamics is so unoriginal, that the whole thing might as well have been titled Generic Bleak Sundance Film Festival Drama No. 500.
03/20/08
The inherently uneventful nature of Stanford's script becomes more and more problematic as the film progresses...
03/19/08
It’s apparent some meaningful visuals are being approached here, but it seems like the film keeps missing its mark.
03/17/08
Not quite enough new here to make this film a hit, but enough of Theron, Hopper and Harrelson to make the film worth watching.
03/15/08
Zac Stanford's screenplay works only as a theorem proving Murphy's Law.
03/15/08
Portentous and dull, the film features one of the worst over-the-top performances by Dennis Hopper, who plays an abusive father. His role upends what could have been a mildly interesting family drama.
03/14/08
Top CriticThe cast is uniformly excellent, starting with 14-year-old Robb -- she makes a strong transition from child roles with her portrayal of the mercurial Tara.
03/14/08
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