Sleepwalking

有的人，注定要从孩子的身上寻找到生命的责任与方向。由于男朋友被拘留，乔琳·里德被赶出了家门......现在她迫切需要一个能够挡风遮雨的地方，好安置自己和11岁的小女儿泰拉。乔琳找到许久未曾联系过的弟弟詹姆斯，他没有任何怀疑就让她们搬进了自己租住的公寓中。
　　然而没过多久，乔琳就和另一个男人私奔了，她留下了泰拉，让毫无准备的詹姆斯独立抚养着这个正在经历着青春期的小女孩。虽然詹姆斯竭尽所能地想让泰拉生活得快乐，摆脱母亲不辞而别的阴影，然而事情的发展很快就脱离了他的控制范围：他不但丢了工作，还连累泰拉被送进收容所。
　　为了避免不必要的麻烦，詹姆斯做出了一个宿命般的重大决定，不但可以帮助他将生活归于原位，也迫使着他面对自己埋藏已久的心魔......詹姆斯带着泰拉离开了公寓，以父女的新身份展开了一场旅行，当他努力地担当起泰拉从来没有经历过的父亲的角色时，却发现自己第一次找到了生活中真正的目标，意义也就变得越来越重大。詹姆斯和泰拉的这场公路之旅，以位于犹他州、詹姆斯出生并长大的农场作为终点。
　　詹姆斯重回到记忆中的童年，他与他的父亲之间的旧伤痕也再次被撕裂，由于詹姆斯的父亲喜欢用情绪化的辱骂甚至是暴打来教育孩子，才使得詹姆斯养成了现在的这种有如浮萍般飘忽不定的性格。My interpretation of "Sleepwalking" as extremely depressing may spring from the fact that I knew nothing about it when I started watching it. Charlize Theron plays down-and-out Jolene, who dumps her daughter Tara (AnnaSophia Robb) on her brother James (Nick Stahl) and disappears. James now has to reconsider how he has lived his whole life.

The wintry setting in this movie has the same effect as the setting in "Affliction": as bleak as can be...especially after what ends up happening after James and Tara go on the road. Definitely not a film that will leave you feeling good. Not to demean the movie at all; I do recommend it. You just have to understand that this is a VERY depressing one, exactly the sort of movie to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. I don't know whether or not you'll like it, but I still encourage you to at least check it out. Also starring Dennis Hopper, Woody Harrelson and Mathew St. Patrick (who played Keith on "Six Feet Under"). I assume that director William Maher is not the same as Bill Maher of "Real Time with Bill Maher".

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