Awake (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 18, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Weinstein
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard & Hayden Christensen | |
Performer: | Lena Olin, Sam Robards, Arliss Howard & Fisher Stevens | |
Directed by | Joby Harold | |
Screenwriting by | Joby Harold | |
Composition by | Graeme Revell | |
Produced by | Joana Vicente, Jason Kliot, John Penotti & Fisher Stevens | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Carpenter | |
Executive Production by | Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Kelly Carmichael & Tim Williams |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Outlandish, preposterous, contrived,and implausible thriller which happens to be fun if you ignore the fact that it's outlandish,preposterous,contrived and implausible.
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CinemaBlend
Rating: 2/5 --
[Joby] Harold's script has a surprise or three in it, a biggy near the end. But he's a director with no poker face. He tips his hand early and often.
Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 7/10 --
A gripping thriller with a good twist and a fantastic medical plot device, Awake is a good watch and succeeds in providing an uneasy feeling as the knives go in...
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What I Watched Tonight
Rating: 2/4 --
With a couple of more drafts to mend the plot holes and restructure the middle act, Awake could have been saved.
Globe and Mail
Rating: 1/5 --
Less painful than having your chest cut open, but a disagreeable experience just the same.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 1.5/5 --
so far fetched that I couldn't swallow the story
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7M Pictures
Rating: D+ --
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.
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Product Description:
Writer/director Joby Harold's debut feature, AWAKE, is an unsettling thriller that highlights a deeply troubling medical problem. "Anesthetic awareness" is a rare but dangerously prevalent condition that affects nearly 30,000 individuals a year, in which patients who have been put under anesthesia before surgery remain paralyzed while still being aware of their present situation. AWAKE tells the story of Clayton Beresford Jr. (Hayden Christensen), a successful young businessman who lives under the roof of his overbearing mother, Lilith (Lena Olin). Afraid to expose his engagement to Lilith's beautiful assistant, Sam Lockwood (Jessica Alba), Clayton decides to do so when he realizes that, thanks to a rare heart condition, he might not live much longer. His best friend and personal surgeon, Jack Harper (Terrence Howard), supports his decision to take the plunge, and also advises him to get a much-needed heart transplant as soon as a donor is found. After he marries Sam, a donor arrives, but when Clayton is put under to receive the complicated surgery, he is shocked to discover that he's still cognizant of everything that is happening to him. As he fights through the pain to hear the doctors' voices, the more he learns about his best friend and his new wife, adding further trauma to an already horrendous situation. Featuring standout performances from the film's principal cast (Christensen, Alba, Howard), as well as its supporting players (Olin, Fisher Stevens, Christopher McDonald), AWAKE is a tense journey through the mind of an innocent man who's on the verge of losing his lease on life.
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- Sales Rank: 54,782
- UPC: 796019816403
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