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- Altered Innocence
- 1 h 29 m
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- Altered Innocence
- 1 h 29 m
Summary While spending the summer in cottage country on the shores of Lake Superior, three teens cope with boredom by testing the limits of their experience.
Directed By: Andrew Cividino
Written By: Blain Watters, Aaron Yeger, Andrew Cividino
- Not Rated
- Altered Innocence
- 1 h 29 m
- Not Rated
- Altered Innocence
- 1 h 29 m
Sleeping Giant
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Summary While spending the summer in cottage country on the shores of Lake Superior, three teens cope with boredom by testing the limits of their experience.
Directed By: Andrew Cividino
Written By: Blain Watters, Aaron Yeger, Andrew Cividino
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
71
80% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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These young actors are superb in their roles, each embodying the complexities of early teen life and the adult struggles they face without the maturity to appropriately handle.
Perhaps most impressive is how, despite the nostalgia inherent in this kind of endeavor, "Sleeping Giant" never sentimentalizes its story, and never compromises on the essentially bleak idea that you can be transformed from a carefree child shading your eyes from the glare of a huge, wide future to a scarred and haunted young adult in a single moment.
Cividino depicts the tricky male power games between the boys with tact and compassionate impartiality.
What’s particularly admirable here is the way the cast and filmmakers illuminate not just the wit and charm of young men, but also the callow cruelty of youth, driven by a killer combination of naïve idealism, solipsism, poor self-esteem and raging hormones.
The ceaseless stupidity of men is lamented but also dissected in Sleeping Giant, a thoughtful, well-observed but also familiar coming-of-age drama.
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Production Company
Film Forge,
Hawkeye Pictures Inc.,
Hawkeye Pictures,
Seville International
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
Vancouver Film Critics Circle
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Mumbai Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
