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Sleepwalking

Sleepwalking SynopsisSleepwalking is a moving drama about the deep familial bond that develops between a 30-year-old man and his young niece after the girl's mother suddenly leaves town.

Forced out of her home after her boyfriend is arrested, Joleen Reedy (Charlize Theron) needs a place to stay with her 11-year-old daughter, Tara (AnnaSophia Robb). She turns for help to her younger brother, James (Nick Stahl) - a simple and overly trusting man who doesn't hesitate to welcome them into his modest rental apartment.

Almost as soon as she moves in, however, Joleen hits the road with another man. Utterly ill-equipped to be the sole guardian of an adolescent girl, James does his best to make his distraught niece happy. But before long, things spin out of control: he loses his job and Tara is put into foster care.

That's when James makes a fateful decision that will bring his life full circle and force him to face his demons. He takes off with Tara and the pair assumes new identities as father and daughter.

What starts out as a ploy to evade authorities takes on a deeper significance as James strives to become the dad Tara never had, and for the first time finds a true purpose in life. But when their road trip takes them to the Utah farm where James grew up, old wounds reopen between James and his father (Dennis Hopper), whose emotionally abusive and sometimes violent ways have changed little since James was a boy.

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Release Date: March 14, 2008
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 101 min.
Distributor(s): Overture Films, Paramount Pictures International
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MPAA Rating: R for language and a scene of violence.

Director(s):
William Maher

Writer(s):
Zac Stanford - Screenplay

Producer(s):
Charlie Mason (II) - Executive Producer
Justin Moore-Lewy - Executive Producer
Anthony Rhulen - Executive Producer
Mike Stirling - Executive Producer
Charlize Theron - Producer
A.J. Dix - Producer
J.J. Harris - Producer
Beth Kono - Producer
Robert Merilees - Producer

Movie Casts:
Nick Stahl - James
AnnaSophia Robb - Tara
Charlize Theron - Joleen
Dennis Hopper - Mr. Reedy
Woody Harrelson - Randall
Deborra-Lee Furness - Danni
Milan Aveyard - Girl #1
Simon Chin - Randall's Friend
Mike Ennis - Cop #2
Shannon Jardine - Mom
Lori Ann Kennedy - Foster Care Worker
Amy Matysio - Sharon
Callum Keith Rennie - Will
Peter Scoular - Dad
Troy Skog - Warren
mily Wees - Nicole
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