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Sleepwalking (2008) DVD Review
Sleepwalking (2008) DVD Credits:
Sleepwalking (2008) Directed by:
Bill Maher
Sleepwalking (2008) Written by:
Zac Stanford
Sleepwalking (2008) Cast:
Charlize Theron, Dennis Hopper, Woody Harrelson, Nick Stahl, Annasophia Robb
Sleepwalking (2008) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
Sleepwalking (2008) DVD Release Date:
7th July 2008
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Sleepwalking (2008) Synopsis:

The drama follows an 11-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment.

Sleepwalking (2008) DVD Review:


Director William Maher worked on The Chumscrubber both in creating the visual effects and directing second-unit sequences, and he paired up with The Chumscrubber’s screenwriter, Zac Stanford, to direct his own film, Sleepwalking. After The Chumscrubber’s wickedly dark look at suburban life, Sleepwalking takes on simple people just struggling to survive. Instead of medicating to deal with her problems, Sleepwalking has a pre-teen who is struggling just to survive. Once again Stanford delivers us a difficult yet rewarding screenplay and Maher uses his experience with visuals to best suit the dark tone of the film.

AnnaSophia Robb is finally allowed a role which demands her to scowl more than smile as a twelve-year-old girl moving from home to home each time her mother (Charlize Theron) makes another mistake. After they are forced to leave their house because of the drug operation that was going on in their house, Tara (Robb) and her mother move in with Tara’s uncle, James (Nick Stahl). James is a kind and quiet construction worker whose life is dramatically altered when they move in. Almost immediately Tara is abandoned and James is left to care for her.

All along the way in this film I kept hoping for something good to happen to these two warm-hearted characters that are unfortunately stuck in a cruel and unforgiving world, but unfortunately each time I though it could get no worse it inevitably did. James loses his job and is forced to move in with his construction friend (Woody Harrelson). Eventually James and Tara are forced to leave town, deciding to flee back to James’s childhood home. Here they find no solace, although Tara is given the opportunity to see the kind of abuse her mother took from their angry father (Dennis Hopper), and James is given a second chance at a moment in his life that seems to have changed him.

The DVD includes a featurette, “A Mother’s Shame, A Family’s Pain: The Making of Sleepwalking” and a theatrical trailer.

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Sleepwalking (2008) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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