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Information
- Year
- 2008
- Runtime
- 101 min.
- Director
- Bill Maher
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating *
- 6.2
- Votes *
- 4,544
- Checks
- 188
- Favs
- 4
- Dislikes
- 7
- Favs/checks
- 2.1% (1:47)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:2
Top comments
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Siskoid
Sleepwalking tricks you into thinking you'll be watching a Charlize Theron vehicle, but it's the story of her taking off for a month and leaving her pre-teen daughter with her underachieving brother, so she's not in it all that much. Said brother means well but gets himself into trouble when he steals the girl from a foster home at her request, a road trip through the cold landscapes of wintry Saskatchewan that can only end in tragedy, with a typically nasty performance from Dennis Hopper as the granddad along the way. For the most part, Sleepwalking feels like a TV movie, especially with that terribly ordinary stock score, but it does achieve moments of great beauty when it shoots the landscape, and at least one memorable moment, by which I mean little AnnaSophia Robb at the pool in roller skates, being a very dangerous younger version of her mother there. The movie is very much about where one comes from, and the sins of the parent visited upon their children with potentially tragic results. Are we fulfilling the promise of our ugly upbringing, or waking up and taking charge of our own lives? 4 years 2 months ago