| Sleep with Me | |
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| Directed by | Rory Kelly |
| Written by | Duane Dell'Amico Roger Hedden Neal Jimenez Joe Keenan Rory Kelly Michael Steinberg |
| Produced by | Michael Steinberg, Eric Stoltz, Roger Hedden[1] |
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| Cinematography | Andrzej Sekuła |
| Edited by | David Moritz |
| Music by | David Nessim Lawrence |
Production |
August Entertainment |
| Distributed by | MGM/UA Distribution Co. |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $200,151 |
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.
It also features Parker Posey, Joey Lauren Adams, and a cameobyQuentin Tarantino, in which he expounds on the homoerotic subtext of Top GuntoTodd 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.[2] The film was a Gala Presentation at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival.[3][circular reference]
The film received mostly negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a 21% rating, based on 14 reviews.[4]
Despite playing to standing ovations at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival[citation needed] 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.[5]
(Sourced from IMDb[7])
