Charlize Central

Photos of Charlize at the Sundance Film Festival yesterday are now available in the gallery. More to follow as they pop up. Enjoy!

A dysfunctional family gets a therapeutic reshuffling via abandonment, unemployment, abuse and murder in “Sleepwalking,” which traces the fallout when a barely functional uncle assumes responsibility for his 11-year-old niece after her mother skips town. Bleakly striking visuals and a name cast (Nick Stahl, Dennis Hopper, Woody Harrelson and producer Charlize Theron) ratchet up the emotional intensity, but the overly simplistic script by Zac Stanford (”The Chumscrubber”) hits nothing but high notes, making the whole dramatically less than the sum of its parts. Broody meller, skedded for March 14 limited release, may ultimately depend on producer Theron’s star power.

Forced out of her boyfriend’s house when he’s busted for growing marijuana, Joleen (Theron) and her daughter Tara (AnnaSophia Robb) move into the dreary digs of Joleen’s younger brother James (Stahl), ironically nicknamed Speedy for his less-than-quicksilver grasp of events. But emotionally distraught Joleen soon hooks up with a truck driver, leaving an ill-prepared James to “temporarily” care for her wise-beyond-her-years daughter.
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Click here to view the new trailer for ‘Sleepwalking’ at IESB.net.

New images (a poster, an on-set photo and a replacement still in hq) from ‘Sleepwalking’ have been added to the gallery. Happy viewing!

‘Sleepwalking’ will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008. The festival runs from January 17 - January 27 in Park City, Utah. For more information and to purchase tickets to the festival, please visit sundance.org/festival.