Imagine it's a comedy and pray for the end.
Awake (2007)
Runtime: 84 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Jessica Alba, Hayden Christensen, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin, Sam Robards
Screenwriter: Joby Harold
Producer: Joana Vicente, Jason Kliot, John Penotti, Fisher Stevens
Composer: Graeme Revell
DVD Info
Release:
Apr 3, 2008
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - 1. Joby Harold - Director
- Deleted Scenes - Optional Commentary
- Behind the Scenes - 1. UNDER THE KNIFE & BEHIND THE CAMERA
Text /Photo Gallery:
- Story Board to Film Comparison
- Trailers
- Theatrical Trailer
Reviews
Less painful than having your chest cut open, but a disagreeable experience just the same.
Outlandish, preposterous, contrived,and implausible thriller which happens to be fun if you ignore the fact that it's outlandish,preposterous,contrived and implausible.
Se um ator admirável como Terrence Howard surge tão constrangedor neste longa, que chances teriam pobres aspirantes a intérpretes como Hayden Christensen e Jessica Alba?
Sex, Lies and Surgical Tape meets I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus!
It becomes more and more fun as the twists pile up -- not entirely convincing, but diverting, like something concocted by a bright eighth-grader.
Harold sustains an unsettling tone and the graphic depiction of what goes on under the knife is, well, a surgery-phobic patient's worst nightmare
The twist-happy screenplay holds together, and the actors around Christensen are better than they have to be: not only reliable hands like Lena Olin and Arliss Howard, but also a perfectly cast Jessica Alba, smartly playing with and against her looks.
Makes one want to assume a state of mind opposite to the film's title.
Unloads a volley of plot twists that'll have you slapping your head in disbelief, provided you haven't figured them out by the end of Act I.
While much of "Awake" simply doesn't work, there are just enough things on display that do to make you wish that someone had taken the time to elaborate on them
Is this goofy, misguided movie enough to keep you "Awake?"Probably, but only if you're laughing during this unintentionally comical drama.
Engages the viewer from start to finish and boasts a handful of decent performances. Crazy but fun.
Admittedly mediocre, this psychological thriller is nevertheless gripping in its reality-based terror.
Awake feels like an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode unfolding in slow motion, with each new revelation coming a reel or two after viewers have guessed it.
A medical thriller with a noggin full of novocaine, this shocker about a botched heart surgery evidently suffered brain surgery to match.
The movie offers twist upon twist upon twist, with no actual plot.
The most vapid stars of our age, Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba, achieve total vapidosity in this jaw-dropping exercise in preposterosity from newcomer Joby Harold.
Waking up during major surgery would be horrible. Waking up during surgery and being forced to watch Awake would be truly ghastly.
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