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Wide Awake
Directed by
M. Night Shyamalan
PG
1998
88m
Comedy
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Drama
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5.8
45%
66%
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A fifth grader goes on a search for God after his grandfather dies. Along the way he gets into tons of trouble at Waldron Academy an all-boys school. Also he is aided on his search by a sports-loving nun.
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Cast of Wide Awake
Denis Leary
Mr. Beal
Joseph Cross
Joshua Beal
Rosie O'Donnell
Sister Terry
Dana Delany
Mrs. Beal
Timothy Reifsnyder
Dave O'Hara
Camryn Manheim
Sister Sophia
Julia Stiles
Neena Beal
Dan Lauria
Father Peters
Robert Loggia
Grandpa Beal
Stefan Niemczyk
Frank Benton
Michael Shulman
Robert Brickman
Marc H. Glick
Father Sebastian
Joey Perillo
Mr. Waltman
Jerry Walsh
Football Coach
Heather Casler
Hope
Wide Awake Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I wonder who the movie was made for.
KFOR Channel 4 News (Oklahoma City)
Blake Davis
A pretentious, preachy first movie from an arguably great filmmaker.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
Children, too, will be bored to tears navigating through some of the talky spiritual gunk.
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk
The movie's greatest strength is in its willingness to admit that the mysteries of life and death are as difficult for children as for adults.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Earnest, overly familiar coming-of-age tale
Film Threat
Tom Meek
The film pursues its sensitive material with the appropriate degree of care, but the direction by M. Night Shyamalan turns potentially provocative moments into dull eddies of melodrama.
TheIndependentCritic.com
Richard Propes
It is an intelligent family film.
ChrisStuckmann.com
Chris Stuckmann
[M. Night Shyamalan] clearly hadn't quite figured out exactly what he wanted to say or do, but as a film, it does feel like a director who is really trying to make something that feels different from other family entertainment that explores spirituality.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A wonderful family film that deals sensitively, and even with humor, with a fairly unusual situation for the screen: a 9-year-old's struggles with his faith in God.
Houston Chronicle
Jeff Millar
The fact is, just too many of the characters and plot points are right out of the stock room: the obligatory fat kid; the obligatory bully; the obligatory kid whose parents can't really afford Catholic school tuition ...
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Beneath its suffocating, smug sentimentality, you have to look hard to uncover a single moment of truth and genuine feeling.
Boxoffice Magazine
Kim Williamson
In a moviemaking world dominated by attention to secular matters, the parochial Wide Awake is a refreshing change of pace.
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