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Wide Awake (1998)

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Reviews Counted: 29 Fresh: 12  Rotten:17 Average Rating: 4.9/10

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Runtime: 88 mins

Synopsis: In M. Night Shyamalan's first Hollywood feature, WIDE AWAKE, 10-year-old Joshua (Joseph Cross) embarks on a spiritual quest after his beloved grandfather (Robert Loggia) succumbs to bone marrow cancer. The determined child is resolved to find out--from God or other sources--what... In M. Night Shyamalan's first Hollywood feature, WIDE AWAKE, 10-year-old Joshua (Joseph Cross) embarks on a spiritual quest after his beloved grandfather (Robert Loggia) succumbs to bone marrow cancer. The determined child is resolved to find out--from God or other sources--what happens to the spirits of the dead. Joshua's sports-loving teacher, Sister Terry (Rosie O'Donnell), advises him to approach a cardinal who is coming to visit the nearby girls school. While there, he meets a young girl and falls for her. As the school year progresses, Joshua continues his search for answers and finds them in very unexpected places. Though markedly different from Shyamalan's moody (and more well-known) films, THE SIXTH SENSE and UNBREAKABLE, the movie does involve a search for truth and a meditation on death--themes present in all of his projects. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Joseph Cross, Timothy Reifsnyder, Dana Delany, Denis Leary, Robert Loggia

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Producer: Cathy Konrad, Cary Woods
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Composer: Edmund Choi

DVD Info

Release:

Nov 1, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

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Eric D. Snider
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Chuck O'Leary
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08/29/05
Todd Jorgenson
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Emanuel Levy
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05/29/04
Andy Klein
New Times
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2/5

A pretentious, preachy first movie from an arguably great filmmaker.

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04/28/03
Blake Davis
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2/5

The film pursues its sensitive material with the appropriate degree of care, but the direction by M. Night Shyamalan turns potentially provocative moments into dull eddies of melodrama.

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12/08/02
Tom Meek
Film Threat
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2.5/4

The movie's greatest strength is in its willingness to admit that the mysteries of life and death are as difficult for children as for adults.

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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
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3/5

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08/15/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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3/5

In a moviemaking world dominated by attention to secular matters, the parochial Wide Awake is a refreshing change of pace.

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06/05/02
Kim Williamson
Boxoffice Magazine
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This wonder-filled film proves that questions can be powerful allies on a spiritual journey.

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03/13/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
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A wonderful family film that deals sensitively, and even with humor, with a fairly unusual situation for the screen: a 9-year-old's struggles with his faith in God.

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02/14/01
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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An interesting little drama about a youth's quest for proof of God.

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01/01/00
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01/01/00
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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For those who want to see something soft, without a bite to it, this is the one to chew on.

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01/01/00
Dennis Schwartz
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What better place to look for God than in a Catholic school, right?

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01/01/00
Eric Lurio
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7/10

There is quite a bit of drama in the film but most of it is internal.

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01/01/00
Harvey S. Karten
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3/4

I was aware of the problems, but that didn't diminish the warm, fuzzy glow I was experiencing.

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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A meandering script, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and the candy coating it's wrapped in, undermine its effectiveness.

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01/01/00
Jane Ganahl
San Francisco Examiner
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