Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

antoniotierno "Sleepwalking" is the sort of flick having all the characteristics and nuances of dialogs suitably calibrated. Acting performances are excellent and it gets to change from a detailed social realism to a horror thriller story. The casting is right as well on the whole, with Theron's Joleen perfectly depicting a careless mother, though disappearing for most of the film and with Ms. Robb's Tara being one of the best presences in the movie. The locations, very sad, are perfect for showing desolation, a resentless bleakness and a grim atmosphere. This story/melodrama is honest in portraying a social contest with people having a no-option existence.

max-lira The movie have great performances(the best is Anna Sophia Robb) and it is a little movie, but the history is poor and the cast have almost nothing to do on the scenes. Charlize performance is nice and she is a great actress. Nick Stahl is not one actor that i love to see, but he is a very good actor. But Anna Sophia Robb is brilliant, she is the best of the movie, with no doubts and she can do all the type of movies and still be great. But the only missing part of the movie is basically the most important: the history. Is so nice to watch a beautiful drama and get touched by the history, but the history is not so great.Isn't bad, but could be very better.....

coachgig i was very very satisfied with the way this movie turned out. it had more then i expected of this. although it would have been nice if the character that Dennis hopper played was not abusive. and if the character was also close to the son and daughter and grandchild together. if the grandfather would change and act like a real parent should then nick stahl's character wouldn't have to be so upset in the first place and that AnnaSophia robb's character wouldn't have gotten hurt. but i'll set that aside because thats not important. although abusive is a serious crime but thats not the focus to this movie. the thing here is that what everyone should look for in a movie that how hard these actors and actresses try and how they accomplished to be in this movie and thats what will make movies really good. you focus on how hard these movie makers and actors and actresses try together thats when you'll notice they made a good movie. this movie i give it an automatic A+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For excellent work and excellent performance and everything. I am very inspired by annasophia robb's career. What she is doing for these films is very important to Hollywood. and so are the rest of the actors. and the directors. Good job to all of them.

gradyharp New director William Maher and writer Zac Stanford previously worked together in THE CHUMSCRUBBER and the similarity of vision is apparent in SLEEPWALKING: both films deal with the empty shells of hollow people aimlessly seeking connection in a world that has become foreign territory. It is a dark, cold, brooding film that somehow manages to maintain our attention with the hope that the gloomy tunnel though which the characters are passing will have a semblance of light at the end. Joleen (Charlize Theron) is the inadequate, loving-but-inconstant mother of twelve-year-old Tara (AnnaSophia Robb) whose reckless an aimless life leads to constant moving and lack of roots. Evicted form her latest residence Joleen and Tara move in with Joleen's younger brother James (Nick Stahl) whose similarly aimless life is defined by a trashy apartment and a mindless construction work job. Tara is sullen, disappointed in her mother's erratic, irresponsible behavior, and when Joleen once again takes off 'on a new idea', Tara is left with James - trying to figure out an existence for survival. James loses his job due to absenteeism, takes up residence in the filthy basement of his nerdy co-worker Randall (Woody Harelson), while the town cop (Mathew St. Patrick) reluctantly places Tara in a foster home to await the return of Joleen. Tara prefers life with James to her 'imprisonment' and the two take off on a road trip, seeking some degree of happiness and love in a world gone berserk. When James runs out of money, he heads to his old home farm for refuge, an unlikely endpoint as his and Joleen's childhood was warped by their abusive farmer father (Dennis Hopper). The return to the farm, James hopes, will provide connection to Tara's past, but instead it results in a tragedy that ultimately moves Tara back to her 'home' and to Joleen, while James drives off into the unknown future, finally awakened from his sleepwalking through life. The film is as bleak as the flat and snowy countryside (the film was shot in Canada's winter) and that countryside reflects the desperate loneliness of the characters. The small cast offers solid portrayals with the work of Nick Stahl being the standout performance. Theron, Robb, Harelson, Hopper, and Deborra-Lee Furness (in a small but poignant role) make the best of a shaky script. This is a mood piece and can become depressing if the viewer expects resolution of the sad and empty lives the characters lead. But there is a haunting quality to the look of the film that stays with the viewer, especially in the mystery in the eyes of the character James as he drives into an unknown but awakened future. Grady Harp