Sleep with Me

Sleep With Me
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Rory Kelly
Produced by Roger Hedden
Written by Duane Dell'Amico
Roger Hedden
Neal Jimenez
Joe Keenan
Rory Kelly
Michael Steinberg
Starring
Music by David Nessim Lawrence
Cinematography Andrzej Sekuła
Edited by David Moritz
Production
company
August Entertainment
Castleberg Production
Paribas Film Corporation
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • September 23, 1994 (1994-09-23)
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 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]

Cast

Reception

Although 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 top critics. The one exception being 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.[2]

Soundtrack

(Sourced from IMDb[3])

References

  1. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Sleep with Me". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
  2. ↑ Ebert, Roger (30 September 1994). "Sleep With Me". The Chicago Sun-Times.
  3. ↑ Soundtrack for Sleep with Me
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