The Sleepy Time Gal Reviews
The Sleepy Time Gal” is a harrowing, emotionally punishing, bleak, and bitter view of old age -- its infirmities, its regrets, its disappointments, and, especially, its proximity to death.
Full Review | Jun 27, 2023
Much of the pleasure of viewing The Sleepy Time Gal lies in the transcendent performance of the great Jacqueline Bisset, who plays the eponymous heroine.
Full Review | Feb 25, 2020
Superb performances from everyone, including Amy Madigan as a sort of one-woman hospice.
Full Review | Feb 2, 2018
The final effect of Sleepy Time Gal is of a lovingly crafted patchwork quilt, sewn by hand, billowing as it falls over the bed.
Full Review | Aug 21, 2004
A captivating and intimate study about dying and loving...
Full Review | Original Score: A | Feb 13, 2003
Munch's screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters. He watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities. His scenes are short and often unexpected.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2002
Playing a role of almost Bergmanesque intensity ... Bisset is both convincing and radiant.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 21, 2002
It has a subtle way of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2002
A thoughtful, moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2002
Doesn't reach for the obvious buttons that a weepy mainstream cancer film, like 'Stepmom' or 'Life As a House,' would push.
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 24, 2002
Although sensitive to a fault, it's often overwritten, with a surfeit of weighty revelations, flowery dialogue, and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken.
Full Review | Jun 29, 2002
When the film ended, I felt tired and drained and wanted to lie on my own deathbed for a while.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 19, 2002
Its rhythms and currents sink into a viewer's consciousness and linger in the mind.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2002
Bisset still commands the screen as the graceful and outspoken Frances.
Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 29, 2002
Excellent performances from Jacqueline Bisset and Martha Plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 29, 2002
It's delicate, haunting and sultry.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 29, 2002
Bisset delivers a game performance, but she is unable to save the movie.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 29, 2002
From the dull, surreal ache of mortal awareness emerges a radiant character portrait.
Full Review | May 28, 2002
To the film's credit, the acting is fresh and unselfconscious, and Munch is a marvel of reality versus sappy sentiment.
Full Review | Original Score: 75/100 | May 24, 2002
Mnch's genuine insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2002