Sleeping Giant
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The Hudsons - husband and wife William and Linda, and their fifteen year old son Adam - are spending the summer, like they have the several recent past summers, at their cottage on the northwestern shore of Lake Superior. William and Linda are still trying to perpetuate them being the perfect family, which they have been able to do as Adam is still closer emotionally to childhood than he is to adulthood and still largely follows parental rules. However, William wants to be bo... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Sleeping Giant:

Jackson Martin
Nick Serino
Reece Moffett
David Disher
Erika Brodzky
Katelyn McKerracher

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The Hudsons - husband and wife William and Linda, and their fifteen year old son Adam - are spending the summer, like they have the several recent past summers, at their cottage on the northwestern shore of Lake Superior. William and Linda are still trying to perpetuate them being the perfect family, which they have been able to do as Adam is still closer emotionally to childhood than he is to adulthood and still largely follows parental rules. However, William wants to be both Adam's father and best friend as he is encouraging Adam to pursue Taylor, a similarly aged girl Adam has known forever at the lake. Adam doesn't want to admit to anyone that he does like Taylor in that way, he justifying his non-action by not wanting to ruin their friendship. This summer for the first time, Adam hangs out with cousins Riley and Nate, who are a little rougher around the edges than him. They are spending the summer with their permissive grandmother, Riley living with her permanently since the death of his parents. Riley and Nate's relationship is characterized by roughhousing, smoking (both cigarettes and weed), petty theft, hazing type rituals such as vandalism, and oneupmanship in the form of dares in feats of what they see as masculinity. Adam gets caught up in their life, with William's blessing in wanting again to act the friend, although Adam does consider Riley a true friend, the more sensitive one, as opposed to Nate who is all teen bravado. Adam has reason to be drawn more to the cousins than to his parents this summer, in him discovering that his family is less than perfect. However, as Adam tries to be who everyone wants him to be, he may have to grow up quickly without that true responsible guidance to show him the way.

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Cinema Scope - 9/10 by Jason AndersonSleeping Giant comes far closer than most teen-centric dramas to conveying the damage that young people can inflict on each other as they constantly jockey for power...
Butaca Ancha - 9/10 by JJ NegreteCidivino presents a fresh hand, agile and firm for a first time director, specially when it comes to the construction of the film and the organic way it builds up. [Full review in Spanish]
Toronto Star - 9/10 by Peter HowellNot just the best Canadian movie of 2015, but one of the year's best films, period.
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) - 8/10 by Josef BraunJames Klopko's camerawork sweeps across magisterial landscapes with the gaze of kids at once awed by their surroundings and too addled with hormones and self-consciousness to take the time to really look.
Eye for Film - 8/10 by Jennie KermodeJackson Martin, Nick Serino and Reece Moffett have great chemistry and give wonderfully naturalistic performances, making them easy to engage with.
Georgia Straight - 8/10 by John LekichAlthough there are fleeting moments of humour, loyalty, and tenderness in writer-director Andrew Cividino's debut, this is a film that draws its raw power from fearlessly exposing the ugly side of adolescence.
Winnipeg Free Press - 8/10 by Alison GillmorWhile the story is about teens, it isn't made for teens. In fact, Sleeping Giant should probably be watched only by adults, who can look back knowing they somehow managed to live through those confusing, difficult, sometimes dangerous years.
The Young Folks - 8/10 by Gary ShannonAn unfilmable concept inexplicably conquered by Cidivino, whose complex vision of youth is realized through a dizzying and intoxicating sense of boyish freedom.
Butaca Ancha - 8/10 by Jorge (JJ) NegreteCidivino presents a fresh hand, agile and firm for a first time director, specially when it comes to the construction of the film and the organic way it builds up. [Full review in Spanish]
Montreal Gazette - 7/10 by Bill BrownsteinLook for Cividino's star to rise rapidly in the future.

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