Completed - ENGLISH-UNITED STATES - Thriller, Drama - 83 minutes
The Emerson family, barely scraping by in life, escape the real world, each in their own way through Shakespeare, comic books, and impossible love affairs. When an opportunity to make some easy money goes awry, they must choose what's truly important or pay the ultimate price.
Year of production : 2024 Director(s) : Antonia BOGDANOVICH Cast : Gbenga AKINNAGBE, Rebecca ROMIJN, Thomas BRODIE-SANGSTER, Tobin BELL Producer(s) : Goral MILEV, William BLAYLOCK, Anna thea BOGDANOVICH, Brian ESPINOSA, Joshua RUSSELL (IRIS INDIE INTERNATIONAL)
Sleep No More is a Los Angeles neo noir crime thriller, combining indie style with literary intelligence and occasional comic desperation. Warren Emerson, once a master Shakespearian actor, is now a gambling drunk. Puck-like Samuel enchants crowds on the 3rd Street Promenade. Reciting the Shakespearian monologues his father, Warren, all but beat into him while his brother Beckett, a master pickpocket, makes his way through the unsuspecting crowd. When Warren gets in deep with a loan shark, his sons need to find a way to escape and like Samuel’s beloved comic book hero, Phantom Halo, they must break free of the mud that traps them. There is counterfeit money, a Bentley, a beautiful woman, knives, guns and an ending that is more like a Shakespearean tragedy then a film about growing up in the urban decay of Hollywood.
Country(ies) : USA