Product Details

• Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Macha Grenon, Michael Ironside, Edward Yankie, Janet Kidder
• Directors: Marc S. Grenier
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: First Look Pictures
• DVD Release Date: January 29, 2002
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005RYLR
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #87,024 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Dead Awake" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Brilliant marketing executive Desmond Caine is a tortured soul stricken with a bizarre insomnia that keeps him walking the city's dangerous streets at all hours of the night. During one of his hallucinogenic journeys, he witnesses a brutal murder. Upon finding the victim's watch, he goes to the police and quickly becomes the main suspect in a twisted tale of cruel corruption, big money, and cold-blooded killing. How can you stop the nightmare when you're already dead awake?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Caught me Off guard!, February 22, 2005

By	S. Sommerville (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is supposed to be just another b-flick destined to air several times late night on the THRILLERMAX channel. With that mindset, I gave it a chance, and it sold me with its HILARIOUS dialouge.

The characters were fresh, and the dialouge was actually excellent! It has a pulp 50's feel at parts, ghetto at other parts, David Mamet clever at other parts...it is a real doozy! The acting was dead-on!

I'm still shocked at how fun this movie was. I think fans of David Mamet films and Francios Ozone flicks will dig it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PERCHANCE TO DREAM, April 16, 2004

By	Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

WHAT A DIFFERENT AND ORIGINAL MOVIE! Stephen Baldwin, known for his lowkey often somnabmulent performances, perfectly plays a man who cannot sleep at night, and sleeps with his eyes open during the day..all the while managing to be a top executive at a dishy firm. During one of his nightly jaunts, he witnesses a murder and finds himself a suspect. May sound old hat, but the body of the movie is filled with some pleasant surprises, unorthodox characters, and twists and turns....and a large dose of comic relief. For example:
*Michael Ironside plays a brain-damaged ex-orderly from a mental institution who offers his own sexual interpretation of Bible lore; his scene where he asks Baldwin to touch where his brains were smashed is chilling and tragic.
*The waitress at the Snow White Diner where Baldwin ends up every night is legally blind, yet tends a cash register and wields a powerful gun;
*Not once, but twice, a toughie's guard dog is wasted, in what can only be considered as ironic justice;
*A dead man's foot is placed inside someone's shoe to see if it fits;
*Baldwin's attorney is only interested in getting the rights to his story for a movie;
*A cop is always taking time during investigations to play the lottery, and lo and behold, he wins---off of the address of the supposed dead person;
*Baldwin is pushed off a skyscraper, miraculously lands on a window-washers station, and the window washer chides Baldwin for attempting suicide while he was on duty;

*Baldwin's first assistant is killed when she offers to help a wheelchair-bound man retrieve his briefcase which is in the middle of a railroad track---while she's out there, he drops several jars of spaghetti sauce on the tracks, and zappo...
These are only some of the unique moments that make this movie such a delightful change of pace.
It's off the wall, but it's extremely entertaining!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's not for everyone but I liked it, April 4, 2005

By	Robert Bruce Scott ""Scotty"" (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's 3:30 in the morning and there's a movie on about an insomniac. As an insomniac, how could I possibly pass on watching this movie? I thought it was a great movie. It's a movie that appeals to the mind. What is real? Is the whole thing just one long hallucination by this guy who can't sleep? I mean with character names like Belladonna (last name of the police detective) and Uno Magic, how can you be sure anything this guy sees and hears isn't just a delusion? If you like weird movies, then this might really appeal to you. If you don't like unusual movies then watch something else. Oh, by the way, don't listen to the reviewer that said this movie was predictable. I can guess most movies within 5 minutes. But I didn't guess this one and the reason is that this movie is so weird/unusual that I just sat back and let it take me where it wanted. Rent it, buy it or catch it on cable but don't watch it the first time until it's 3:30 in the morning.