Dead Awake
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Actor: Edward Yankie, Janet Kidder, Macha Grenon, Michael Ironside, Stephen BaldwinDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: First Look Pictures
Movie Reviews of Dead Awake
Movie Review: PERCHANCE TO DREAM
Summary: 5 Stars
WHAT A DIFFERENT AND ORIGINAL MOVIE! Stephen Baldwin, known for his lowkey often somnabmulent performances, perfectly plays a man who cannot sleep at night, and sleeps with his eyes open during the day..all the while managing to be a top executive at a dishy firm. During one of his nightly jaunts, he witnesses a murder and finds himself a suspect. May sound old hat, but the body of the movie is filled with some pleasant surprises, unorthodox characters, and twists and turns....and a large dose of comic relief. For example:*Michael Ironside plays a brain-damaged ex-orderly from a mental institution who offers his own sexual interpretation of Bible lore; his scene where he asks Baldwin to touch where his brains were smashed is chilling and tragic.
*The waitress at the Snow White Diner where Baldwin ends up every night is legally blind, yet tends a cash register and wields a powerful gun;
*Not once, but twice, a toughie's guard dog is wasted, in what can only be considered as ironic justice;
*A dead man's foot is placed inside someone's shoe to see if it fits;
*Baldwin's attorney is only interested in getting the rights to his story for a movie;
*A cop is always taking time during investigations to play the lottery, and lo and behold, he wins---off of the address of the supposed dead person;
*Baldwin is pushed off a skyscraper, miraculously lands on a window-washers station, and the window washer chides Baldwin for attempting suicide while he was on duty;
*Baldwin's first assistant is killed when she offers to help a wheelchair-bound man retrieve his briefcase which is in the middle of a railroad track---while she's out there, he drops several jars of spaghetti sauce on the tracks, and zappo...
These are only some of the unique moments that make this movie such a delightful change of pace.
It's off the wall, but it's extremely entertaining!
Summary of Dead Awake
Brilliant marketing executive Desmond Caine is a tortured soul stricken with a bizarre insomnia that keeps him walking the city's dangerous streets at all hours of the night. During one of his hallucinogenic journeys, he witnesses a brutal murder. Upon finding the victim's watch, he goes to the police and quickly becomes the main suspect in a twisted tale of cruel corruption, big money, and cold-blooded killing. How can you stop the nightmare when you're already dead awake?Similar DVD Movies
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