The Sleepy Time Gal” is a harrowing, emotionally punishing, bleak, and bitter view of old age -- its infirmities, its regrets, its disappointments, and, especially, its proximity to death.

| Jun 27, 2023

Much of the pleasure of viewing The Sleepy Time Gal lies in the transcendent performance of the great Jacqueline Bisset, who plays the eponymous heroine.

| Feb 25, 2020

Superb performances from everyone, including Amy Madigan as a sort of one-woman hospice.

| Feb 2, 2018

| Original Score: 75/100 | May 13, 2005

The final effect of Sleepy Time Gal is of a lovingly crafted patchwork quilt, sewn by hand, billowing as it falls over the bed.

| Aug 21, 2004

A captivating and intimate study about dying and loving...

| Original Score: A | Feb 13, 2003

Munch's screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters. He watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities. His scenes are short and often unexpected.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2002

Playing a role of almost Bergmanesque intensity ... Bisset is both convincing and radiant.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 21, 2002

It has a subtle way of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2002

A thoughtful, moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2002

Doesn't reach for the obvious buttons that a weepy mainstream cancer film, like 'Stepmom' or 'Life As a House,' would push.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 24, 2002

Although sensitive to a fault, it's often overwritten, with a surfeit of weighty revelations, flowery dialogue, and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken.

| Jun 29, 2002

When the film ended, I felt tired and drained and wanted to lie on my own deathbed for a while.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 19, 2002

Its rhythms and currents sink into a viewer's consciousness and linger in the mind.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2002

Bisset still commands the screen as the graceful and outspoken Frances.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 29, 2002

Excellent performances from Jacqueline Bisset and Martha Plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 29, 2002

It's delicate, haunting and sultry.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 29, 2002

Bisset delivers a game performance, but she is unable to save the movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 29, 2002

From the dull, surreal ache of mortal awareness emerges a radiant character portrait.

Full Review | May 28, 2002

To the film's credit, the acting is fresh and unselfconscious, and Munch is a marvel of reality versus sappy sentiment.

| Original Score: 75/100 | May 24, 2002