Sleep with Me

Sleep with Me is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Rory Kelly and starring Meg Tilly, Eric Stoltz and Craig Sheffer, who play good friends that become involved in a love triangle, a relationship complicated by the marriage of Tilly's and Stoltz's characters.

For the storytelling podcast by Night Vale Presents, see Sleep with Me (podcast).
Sleep with Me
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRory Kelly
Written byDuane Dell'Amico
Roger Hedden
Neal Jimenez
Joe Keenan
Rory Kelly
Michael Steinberg
Produced byRoger Hedden
Starring
CinematographyAndrzej Sekuła
Edited byDavid Moritz
Music byDavid Nessim Lawrence
Production
companies
August Entertainment
Castleberg Production
Paribas Film Corporation
United Artists
Distributed byMGM/UA Distribution Co.
Release date
  • September 23, 1994 (1994-09-23)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$200,151

It also features Parker Posey, Joey Lauren Adams, and a cameo by Quentin Tarantino, in which he expounds on the homoerotic subtext of Top Gun to Todd Field. Six different writers wrote a scene each about the arc and development of the relation between the protagonists, including Kelly.

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film was a Gala Presentation at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival.[2]

Cast

Reception

The film received mostly negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a 21% rating, based on 14 reviews.[3]

Despite playing to standing ovations at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and being surrounded by a great deal of early buzz, the film suffered from distribution issues—namely, that it was acquired by a reorganized MGM and not a specialty division. Consequently it made no more festival appearances, was marketed by MGM as a mainstream romp, and was ignored by most top critics. One of the exceptions was Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times. who wrote

"Sleep With Me is the kind of movie anyone is likely to drift into. The writer-director Quentin Tarantino turns up, for example, as a guest at a party, and launches into a long, detailed, manic explanation of why Top Gun is really 'the story of a man's struggle against his own homosexuality.' The more he talks, the more plausible his theory sounds. The movie ends kind of abruptly. Maybe all six writers wrote for the beginning and the middle, and no one thought to close the story. What we're left with are bits and pieces, some of them inspired, in a movie that kind of works sometimes, if you approach it in the right mood. The odd thing is, the offhandedness is seductive.[4]

Year-end lists

Soundtrack

(Sourced from IMDb[6])

References
  1. "Festival de Cannes: Sleep with Me". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
  2. "1994 Toronto International Film Festival".
  3. "Sleep with Me (1994)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  4. Ebert, Roger (30 September 1994). "Sleep With Me". The Chicago Sun-Times. Online: "Sleep with Me (1994)". rogerebert.com. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  5. Elliott, David (December 25, 1994). "On the big screen, color it a satisfying time". The San Diego Union-Tribune (1, 2 ed.). p. E=8.
  6. Soundtrack for Sleep with Me
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