
Forty year old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twenties onwards. Christine receives treatment from Dr. Nasch, a neurologist at a local hospital who provides her a camera to record her thoughts and progress each day, and calls her e... (Full plot summary below)
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Forty year old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twenties onwards. Christine receives treatment from Dr. Nasch, a neurologist at a local hospital who provides her a camera to record her thoughts and progress each day, and calls her every morning to remind her to watch the video in the camera. Soon, she starts to discover the truth around her.
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| AV ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyRowan Joffé’s drizzly, workmanlike thriller Before I Go To Sleep turns a ludicrous premise into a fitfully suspenseful, consistently interesting exercise in audience manipulation. |
| NPRElla TaylorWith luck, Kidman will erase this inept thriller from her memory as quickly as it leaves theaters. |
| Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinWriter-director Rowan Joffe’s adaptation of S.J. Watson’s bestseller honors the lurid spirit of the page-turner enough to satisfy fans, but he doesn’t transmute the material into something richer and deeper the way. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereLike GROUNDHOG DAY without the laughs. You'd be better off sleeping. |
| Entertainment WeeklyKyle AndersonSleep is 91 minutes of delightfully twisted tension and three minutes of eye-rolling treacle. Kidman and Firth are both excellent in their sadness and savagery, and Joffe builds tension far better than most of the horror movies available at your local Cineplex this Halloween weekend. If only he had quit while he was ahead. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleBefore I Go to Sleep emerges as a mystery — one with a slow burn leading to a big payoff. But what keeps the movie going, beyond questions of what is true and what is false, are the issues raised by the illness itself. |
| NOW TorontoRadheyan SimonpillaiIf Gone Girl's success and artistry have motivated people to explore the marriage thrillers (or "chick noir") further, Before I Go to Sleep may be the counterpoint to give it a rest. |
| At the Movies (Australia)Margaret PomeranzHowever silly the denouement might be, the journey there is quite intriguing. |
| McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreWhatever twists this puzzle tosses at us, the film reminds us that a great actor, in close-up, telling a story with just her or his eyes, is still the greatest special effect the movies have to offer. This cast telling this story ensures us that nobody will be dozing off Before I Go to Sleep. |
| Irish TimesTara BradyYou couldn't say that Before I Go to Sleep isn't entertaining. But you couldn't say it was remotely plausible or logical either |