Filmography | Sleepwalking (2008)
Character Joleen Reedy
Directed By Bill Maher
Written By Zac Stanford
Cast Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Hopper, Woody Harrelson
Genre Drama
MPAA Rating R (for language and a scene of violence)
Official Synopsis
Forced out of her home after her boyfriend is arrested, Joleen Reedy (Charlize Theron) needs a place to stay with her 11-year-old daughter, Tara (AnnaSophia Robb). She turns for help to her younger brother, James (Nick Stahl)-- simple and overly trusting man who doesn't hesitate to welcome them into his modest rental apartment.
Almost as soon as she moves in, however, Joleen hits the road with another man. Utterly ill-equiped to be the sole guardian of an adolescent girl, James does his best to make his distraught niece happy. But before long, things spin out of control: he loses his job and Tara is put into foster care.
That's when James makes the fateful decision that will bring his life full circle and force him to face his demons. He takes off with Tara and the pair assume new identies as father and daughter.
What starts out as a ploy to evade authorites takes on a deeper significance as James strives to become the dad Tara never had, and for the first time finds a true purpose in life. But when their roadtrip takes them to the Utah farm where James grew up, old wounds reopen between James and his father (Dennis Hopper), whose emotionally abusive and sometimes violent ways have changed little since James was a boy.
