Wide Awake (1998)

Directed by

M. Night Shyamalan

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 96 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A ten-year-old boy named Josh is dealing with the death of his grandfather. He searches for meaning and questions his faith as he navigates school and family life.

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What happens

Wide Awake is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and produced by Cathy Konrad and Cary Woods. Starring Denis Leary, Dana Delany, Joseph Cross, and Rosie O'Donnell, the film follows Cross as a ten-year-old boy who struggles with his grief and Christian faith after the recent loss of his grandfather. Released by Miramax Films, it was Shyamalan's first release by a major studio after his independently produced debut Praying with Anger in 1992, and was originally shot in 1995, although creative differences between Shyamalan and executive producer Harvey Weinstein led to significant delays. Being released before Shyamalan's widely successful next film The Sixth Sense (1999), Wide Awake went mostly unnoticed upon release, receiving mixed reviews and becoming a box-office failure. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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