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Two talented young actors, Nick Stahl and AnnaSophia Robb, snatch this downer drama away from their typecast elders (Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Hopper). Robb plays a hardened 12-year-old whose trashy mom (Theron) disappears on her; Stahl is the girl's dumb but tenderhearted uncle, who loses custody of his niece, rooms for a while with a stoner pal (Harrelson), then snatches her from her foster home and takes her to meet his estranged, son-of-a-bitch father (Hopper). The movie seems unusually honest in portraying the no-option existence of the working poor, but the story slips into melodrama in the last reel. William Maher directed. R, 100 min.

Sorry there are no showtimes for Sleepwalking on Saturday, November 21.

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