Sleep Walk With Me - 2012 - 3 Stars

Actors:  Mike Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose
Director:  Mike Birbiglia

Note:  Some Spoilers Ahead

Comedy used to be about exposing the foibles of the world around us, but as our culture has gotten more inwardly focused, so too has comedy.  It's not enough to just tell jokes for a living - a comedian has to have a personal narrative, he or she has to expose himself or herself to the world too.  Sleep Walk With Me is such a story - a struggling comedian deals with a flagging relationship and his sleepwalking problem.  It's an honest examination of how to not tell the truth to another human being - to instead expose it to everyone else but that person.  Such are our times, I suppose.

I wanted to give this less credit than I ultimately did - I felt it deflected the question of how success in comedy and lack of success in other parts of life may be correlated, even as the film centered around that thorny fulcrum.  The main character subsists as a result of his anxieties - it's left up to the audience to decide whether or not that's good for him.