Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Top 10 Sleep Movies

 

In an earlier post I wrote about sleep poems, so I thought it might be fun to do a follow on post on popular movies about sleep.  The next time you're awake at 2:00 in the morning, flip on one of these movies:

1. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Tagline: What if someone you never met, someone  you never saw, someone you never knew was the only someone for you?

Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Rosie O’Donnell
Length: 105 minutes

2. Sleep No More (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) (1956)
Tagline: There was nothing to hold onto -- except each other.

Length: 80 minutes

3. Insomnia (2002)
Tagline: Don’t close your eyes. Starring: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank
Length: 118 minutes

4. Sleeper (1973)
Tagline: A love story about two people who hate each other. 200 years in the future.

Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
Length: 89 minutes

5. Awakenings (1990)
Tagline: There is no such thing as a simple miracle.

Starring: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams
Length: 121 minutes

6. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Tagline: Awaken to a World of Wonders!

Length: 75 minutes

7. The Big Sleep (1946/1978)
Tagline: Some days business is good -- and some days it's murder! (1946) & The type of man she hated ... was the type she wanted! (1978)

Starring: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall (1946); Robert Mitchum and Jimmy Stewart (1978)
Length: 114 minutes (1946); 99 minutes (1978)

8. Somewhere in Dreamland (1936)

Length: 9 minutes

9. Chasing Sleep (2000)
Tagline: The nightmare begins when you open your eyes...

Starring: Jeff Daniels
Length: 104 minutes

10. Sleepers (1996)
Tagline: When friendship runs deeper than blood.

Starring: Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Minnie Driver, Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt
Length: 147 minutes





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