Sleeping and Waking

Play trailer

Sleeping and Waking

2009

1h 32m

Drama

Romance

Play Trailer

Watchlist

Watchlist

Tomatometer

Popcornmeter

90%

Tomatometer

41 Reviews

75%

Popcornmeter

5,000+ Ratings

Sully has to find a way back from the darkness in his life.

Critics Consensus

Retaining the hauntingly enigmatic atmosphere of its prior incarnation, Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut offers a more satisfyingly realized sense of mythology and theme.

Read Critics Reviews

Leighton Walter Kille

Boston Globe

What remains unchanged is the realization of just what a superb actor Jake Gyllenhaal is.

Rated: 3.5/4

Aug 27, 2004

Full Review

Gary Dowell

Dallas Morning News

It's a dreamlike, intuitive movie that has much to say about life and death and points in between.

Rated: B+

Aug 26, 2004

Full Review

Bob Longino

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The new Darko is just as marvelous as the old.

Rated: A

Aug 26, 2004

Full Review

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Oddly not as good as the theatrical cut.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 29, 2009

Full Review

Beth Accomando

KPBS.org

The resulting film reveals an artist who has seriously reflected on his work and carefully considered what to add, what to alter and sometimes what to remove.

Mar 30, 2007

Full Review

Mark Bourne

DVDJournal.com

...other additions -- most egregiously at the climax -- are just intrusive and reduce our interpretive choices by replacing them with one choice, purely science-fictional in a George Lucas 'midichlorians' sense, that's a diminishment, not an illumination.

Apr 6, 2006

Full Review

Read all reviews

Audience Member

Director's Cut version that was given a limited theatrical run in 2004. A very small amount of footage was dropped while about 18 min. of deleted scenes are added. This is clearly the much better and more improved version.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/13/08

Full Review

Read all reviews

Read More

Read Less

POST RATING

WRITE A REVIEW

EDIT REVIEW

Joe Banno

Director

Jeff Allin

Sullivan Daniels

Hope Lambert

Amanda Daniels

Ray Ficca

Jerry

Elizabeth Jernigan

Renee

Helen Hedman

Mrs. Daniels

View more photos

Synopsis

Sully has to find a way back from the darkness in his life.

Director: Joe Banno
Screenwriter: Chris Stezin
Production Co: Tontine Films
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 15, 2017
Runtime: 1h 32m

Most Popular at Home Now