Sleepwalk With Me
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- Best of NEXT Audience Award — Sundance Film Festival
"A funny and insightful movie. I could have watched it for ten hours." —Judd Apatow
"Sleepwalk With Me is as charming as it is winningly modest." —Onion AV Club
"A crowd-pleasing comedy! Mike Birbiglia deftly transposes his stand-up routine to the big screen." —The Hollywood Reporter
“I’m going to tell you a story, and it’s true….I always have to tell people that.” So asserts comedian-turned-playwright-turned-filmmaker Mike Birbiglia directly to the viewer at the outset of his autobiographically inspired, fictional feature debut. Birbiglia wears his incisive wit on his sleeve while portraying a cinematic surrogate. We are thrust into the tale of a burgeoning stand-up comedian struggling with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship threatening to race out of his control, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore. Based on the successful one-man show, Sleepwalk With Me engages in the kind of passionate and personal storytelling that transfigures intimate anguish into comic art. Produced and co-written by Ira Glass (NPR’s This American Life), it features a stellar supporting cast that includes Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under), Carol Kane (Taxi), James Rebhorn (Meet the Parents), Cristin Milioti (30 Rock), and a sampling of the who’s who in today’s stand-up scene.
1hr 30mins | USA | NR
Listen to an interview with Mike on NPR’s “Fresh Air”
Directed by: Mike Birbiglia
Featuring: Mike Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose, Carol Kane
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