
James "Speedy" Reedy is anything but. He's a twenty-something slacker sleepwalking through life in a Midwestern town. His older sister, Joleen calls him in the middle of the night after the police have arrested her boyfriend and tossed her and her 12-year-old daughter Tara on the street. James takes them in, then Joleen, who claims to have a plan, leaves with a trucker and a stash of drug money. James tries to cope, but soon he's lost his job, and child protective services pl... (Full plot summary below)
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James "Speedy" Reedy is anything but. He's a twenty-something slacker sleepwalking through life in a Midwestern town. His older sister, Joleen calls him in the middle of the night after the police have arrested her boyfriend and tossed her and her 12-year-old daughter Tara on the street. James takes them in, then Joleen, who claims to have a plan, leaves with a trucker and a stash of drug money. James tries to cope, but soon he's lost his job, and child protective services places Tara in foster care. She's miserable. Can James wake up and find a way to be more than just a nice guy? A road trip to his childhood may hold a key, or it may be another bad dream.
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| Monsters and CriticsRon WilkinsonNot quite enough new here to make this film a hit, but enough of Theron, Hopper and Harrelson to make the film worth watching. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyAs the abusive patriarch, Dennis Hopper gives such an atrocious, one-dimensional performance that he completely throws out of balance a family melodrama that has few artistic or psychological merits to begin with. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.William Maher's melodrama is much too grim and bleak for even the most cynical viewer to enjoy... |
| Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzRelentlessly downbeat, with a glimmer of a payoff in the last couple of scenes, Sleepwalking is a film that has 'indie' written all over it -- for better and for worse. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordDennis Hopper just co-starred with Rainn Wilson in a parody of indie movie cliches for the Independent Spirit Awards broadcast, and, as it turns out, several scenes from his latest movie could have been included. |
| AV ClubNathan RabinWell-intentioned to a fault, Sleepwalking blurs the line between dramatizing free-floating misery and spreading it. |
| Metromix.comGeoff BerkshireThere's an inescapable sense that we've seen this sort of dysfunctional family indie drama before, but ... Sleepwalking ultimately emerges as a solid example of the genre. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerDespite its deficiencies, and the inadequate screen time allotted to Theron (who's quite good), Sleepwalking has a core of feeling. It's about a do-gooder who, lacking all skills for it, does good anyway. His emotional odyssey has real poignancy. |
| The Cinema SourceMichael DanceThe let's-take-a-road-trip method of character healing has been done to death, but unlike Little Miss Sunshine, James & Tara are made up of more than just cute quirks. |
| Sacramento News & ReviewJim Lane...a lifeless movie about uninteresting people. |