| Sleep with Me | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Rory Kelly |
| Written by | Duane Dell'Amico Roger Hedden Neal Jimenez Joe Keenan Rory Kelly Michael Steinberg |
| Produced by | Michael Steinberg, Eric Stoltz, Roger Hedden[1] |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Andrzej Sekuła |
| Edited by | David Moritz |
| Music by | David Nessim Lawrence |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | MGM/UA Distribution Co. |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $0.2 million (US/Canada)[2] |
Sleep with Me is a 1994 Americancomedy-drama film directed byRory Kelly and starringMeg Tilly,Eric Stoltz andCraig Sheffer, who play good friends that become involved in alove triangle, a relationship complicated by the marriage of Tilly's and Stoltz's characters.
It also featuresParker Posey,Joey Lauren Adams, and acameo byQuentin Tarantino, in which he expounds on thehomoerotic subtext ofTop Gun toTodd Field. Six different writers wrote a scene each about the arc and development of the relation between the protagonists, including Kelly.
The film was screened in theUn Certain Regard section at the1994 Cannes Film Festival.[3] The film was a Gala Presentation at the1994 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film received mostly negative reviews. OnRotten Tomatoes it has a 21% rating, based on 14 reviews.[4]
Despite playing to standing ovations at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival[citation needed] and being surrounded by a great deal of early buzz, the film suffered from distribution issues—namely, that it was acquired by a reorganizedMGM and not a specialty division. Consequently, it made no more festival appearances, was marketed by MGM as a mainstream romp, and was ignored by most top critics. One of the exceptions wasRoger Ebert for theChicago Sun-Times. who wrote
"Sleep With Me is the kind of movie anyone is likely to drift into. The writer-director Quentin Tarantino turns up, for example, as a guest at a party, and launches into a long, detailed, manic explanation of whyTop Gun is really 'the story of a man's struggle against his own homosexuality.' The more he talks, the more plausible his theory sounds. The movie ends kind of abruptly. Maybe all six writers wrote for the beginning and the middle, and no one thought to close the story. What we're left with are bits and pieces, some of them inspired, in a movie that kind of works sometimes, if you approach it in the right mood. The odd thing is, the offhandedness is seductive.[5]
It opened on 6 screens in the United States on September 23, 1994 and grossed $33,004 in its opening weekend and went on to gross $200,151.[2]
(Sourced from IMDb[7])