Sleep with Me | | Cast : | Meg Tilly, Eric Stoltz, Craig Sheffer | | Director : | Rory Kelly | | Studio : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | | Format : | Color, Widescreen | | Released Date : | January 01, 1994 | | DVD Released Date : | January 13, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | April 18, 2005 | | Summary | "I have a weird, crazy idea. Let's play poker." | Content
 | This offbeat romantic comedy starts out pretty entertaining but soon gets bogged down, suffering from having six(!) different writers working on the script. Sarah (Meg Tilly), Joseph (Eric Stoltz), and Frank (Craig Sheffer) are three close friends that have known each other for years. But when Sarah and Joseph decide to marry, Frank tells Sarah that he's always been in love with her. Thus, a predictable love triangle results, in which there's lots of jealousy, shouting, and cursing, which grows old quickly.
The main problem I had was that Sarah was flirting with Frank bigtime even before she married Joseph, so either she was naive or just plain stupid to think that her marriage to Joseph wouldn't cause a problem with her and Frank. Plus, once she marries Joseph, she goes back and forth from being with Joseph to being with Frank so many times that it actually gave me a headache! As beautiful and charming as Meg Tilly is, she couldn't save this from being a mediocre comedy. Some of the best scenes of the movie are the poker games with Joseph and his friends, who share their views on life and love. Overall, I'd recommend this only as a one-time rental. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 11, 2004 | | Summary | Dated But Hasn't Lost Its Touch | Content
| This is no reflection on the quality of the film, but Sleep With Me loses its edge after ten years. It's full of witty, 90's style banter. This was a great film when romantic comedies were in. The actors were hilarious and I enjoyed Craig Sheffer for the first time ever. I don't watch a lot of his films but this one is entertaining. I saw it in 1994 and was hooked on it then. Since then my tastes have changed and I've gotten attached to other films. This is the perfect date movie providing a realistic, comedic look at the differences between women and men and the problems that can surface within a circle of friends. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 19, 2002 | | Summary | SWORD FIGHT !!! | Content
| O.K., maybe I was a little hard on this film originally. I recently purchased an import copy of it on DVD and watched it again. I think in all fairness, I'd bump it up a star to 3. Now, about watching it on DVD, I can now go right to Tarantino giving his Top Gun monologue. As I've said before, it's way better then his Madonna speech. Be sure to catch this movie and give it chance when it comes out domestically on DVD (or better yet, now on VHS at this nice price). Sword fight !!! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 29, 2002 | | Summary | Off-beat, funny, and poignant | Content
| Unlike the standard Hollywood romance, this movie gives us a realistic view of people. The characters are quirky, neurotic, confused, and not really very glamorous. They are also very likeable, as we can sympathize and identify with the dilemmas they create for themselves. Even as the movie pokes fun at them for their foibles, there is also a tenderness for them and the self-imposed suffering they must endure. The plot revolves around a friendship between 2 men and a woman. When one of the men (Eric Stoltz) marries the woman (Meg Tilly), the angst and complications begin. Although the course of the story seems foreseeable (not a lot of surprises), the film escapes being predictable by having believable characters that are like people many of us know or could know from our own lives. In addition, the structure is unusual....the different sections of this film were written by different writers, yet all parts do seem integrated with the whole. Add to this the fact that the scenes are seemingly artlessly put together, so that often there is almost a documentary effect....what you end up with is an experiment in film making that doesn't require you to have a film degree to appreciate. |
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