Review of Wide Awake (1998) by Stephen Holden for The New York Times — 19 Aug 2004
Wide Awake imagines it's a seriocomic "coming of age" film radiating waves of healing sweetness and light. But beneath its suffocating, smug sentimentality, you have to look hard to uncover a single moment of truth and genuine feeling.
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This review of Wide Awake (1998) was written by Stephen Holden and published by The New York Times on 19 Aug 2004.
Wide Awake has generally received mixed reviews.
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