Wide Awake

This is one of those things you catch on ABC Family at 10pm and you're not sure if it's a TV special or a direct to video movie or what but there's nothing else good on so you may as well leave it on until Letterman

Wide Awake had some cute themes but overall it seemed like a bit too much to take in. There were some good themes to take in as a kid so that is good for younger viewers. The biggest problem is that this little kid in this movie was written to speak and act like a twenty year old college student. It wasn't believable at all. The acting was very good. The children in this movie did a good job, as child actors go. O'Donnell played a great sister. Loggia played a caring grandfather.

59.

C

A weird little early Shyamalan with Rosie O'Donnell as a baseball-loving nun.

It's interesting to see all the little things such as child performances and religious themes shaping up here, as well as M. Night's directorial stuff. It's shot pretty well and has good emotion. All things said, I didn't think it was that good. There isn't much interesting happening for most of it and felt a bit sappy and insincere. The kid seemed a bit unnatural and there were strange attempts of humour/parodies. The ending was bizarre, knowing how much M. Night loves Twist Endings.

61.000

If every Shyamalan film is about faith or the search of evidences, Wide Awake is the one he makes sure that maybe what matters in life -- or in his cinema -- it's not God himself, but what is around us, living, breathing and hiding in places we usually don't look at. The surprise finale, in which that little blonde dude is revealed to be an angel, gives another hint of what the director would do in most of hils films: to stress a naive but genuine belief in the invisible -- in cinema and life.

Shyamalan wears his heart on his sleave in this early film. It's well-meaning and sort of sweet but it didn't really speak to me.

62.500

Mindblowing. But then I was hearing the voice of "God" while watching this movie. I am also a epileptic.