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From the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival

Chasing Sleep

Jeff Daniels has come a long way since his days in Dumb & Dumber. In this psychological thriller, Daniels plays an over medicated, sleep deprived, unhappily married man, who loses time and the ability to tell reality from fiction.

Plumbing is portrayed in a frightening manner and there is more bathroom scene  blood than you saw in Psycho. Get ready to cringe from a walking dismembered  finger and a morphed dwarf baby.

There is a mix of bizarre humor and spine tingling movie moments which will keep       you on the edge of your seat and wondering what will happen next.

Thumbs up to Daniels who has proven himself to be a great actor able to play a wide range of roles and to play them incredibly well.
~Sheila, September 2000

Jeff Daniels portrayed a man that had suppressed his feelings and actions to a point of no return. He slips deeper and deeper into a nightmare from which he can’t escape. Daniels does a great job in the film, and is reason enough to see this film. I must say that the baby in the tub really freaked me out.
~Trixie, September 2000

Ok…Here it is: This was my first film festival film. It was different. I’m not sure that it will make it into the mainstream, but…interesting, and entertaining for the most part. First, before the movie, we listened to the director say nothing intelligent about his work, then we proceeded to watch a “weird psycho-thriller.” It stars Jeff Daniels who plays a guy whose wife disappears very suspiciously. I found it to be a comic-thriller. I laughed at quite a few scenes, then cringed at others. The filming and camera angles were sort of new and refreshing, (although the crawling finger and bloody fetus-baby thing were hard to swallow). But you’ll have to see it yourself to see those scenes…and I’ll bet you’ll have to rent it.
~Bettie, September 2000

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