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Wide Awake. Comedy. 90 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1998. Roger Ebert. March 27, 1998. 3 min read. In an opening scene of “Wide Awake” the fifth-grade kids in Catholic school have a spirited discussion about whether the unbaptized can get into heaven. This rang a bell.
Wide Awake is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and produced by Cathy Konrad and Cary Woods. The film stars Denis Leary, Dana Delany, Joseph Cross, and Rosie O'Donnell.
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On first impressions, Wide Awake seems as different from an M. Night Shyamalan production as you can get. Wide Awake is Shyamalan's second film as a director, released just one year before The Sixth Sense. Rather than overloading his audiences with otherworldly shenanigans that beg for suspension of disbelief, Shyamalan instead kept things straight...
By itself, Wide Awake isn’t particularly remarkable. Anyone with a passing interest in the coming-of-age genre will find much of its content familiar, and there are occasions when you’d swear Shyamalan was working down a checklist of every cliché such a film should have (subplot about Joshua being bullied by an older classmate who turns out to have...
With all that being said, it’s unlikely that any contemporary viewer will be watching Wide Awake as anything other than an enthralling game of "spot the foreshadowing." In the years since its release, Shyamalan has become one of the most recognizable names in modern filmmaking and seeing the words “written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan” during...
Wide Awake is an odd film. It’s too childish for adults, too adult for children, and too underdeveloped to satisfy the small demographic that might otherwise enjoy it. But hindsight is a curious thing, and what was once nothing more than a mediocre kids’ film is now a priceless artifact when dissecting the career of M. Night Shyamalan. It’s clear t...
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Wide Awake: Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. With Joseph Cross, Timothy Reifsnyder, Dana Delany, Denis Leary. A 10-year-old boy goes on a search for God after his grandfather dies.
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- Comedy, Drama, Family
- M. Night Shyamalan
- 1998-03-20
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Watchlist. NEW. Struggling to adjust to his beloved grandfather's death, a boy (Joseph Cross) seeks understanding of God, life and injustice. Fandango at Home Prime Video Apple TV. Rent Wide...
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Wide Awake is a 1998 comedy-drama film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and produced by Cathy Konrad and Cary Woods. The film stars Denis Leary, Dana Delany, Joseph Cross and Rosie O'Donnell.
