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...with Sleepwalking, stolidly directed by William Maher from a script by Zac Standford and most significantly co-produced by Charlize Theron (who won her Academy Award for Monster, which is solidly in the tradition of American hopelessness). In the new film she plays a boozing, pot-smoking layabout named Joleen, whose redeeming virtue is a fierce love for her daughter, Tara (AnnaSophia Robb). This, however, does not prevent her from deserting the child to run off with some anonymous dude. She dumps Tara on her brother, James (Nick Stahl), who promptly loses his job and his apartment, and decides...
...Sleepwalking,” a new film from directorBill Maher, opens with a shot of anempty road stretching out into the distancethrough a flat, nondescript landscape.This overused and bland imageis representative of the film as a whole.Even heartfelt performances cannotquite compensate for a plot that teetersbetween tedium and brutality, and a tritescript that only barely leaves room forcharacter development.AnnaSophia Robb (“Bridge to Terabithia”)plays Tara, a troubled but lovable12-year-old who grapples with beingneglected by her mother. Early in thefilm, Tara’s mother, Joleen (played byCharlize Theron, “Monster?...
Still, the breach was a chance to complete all manner of desperate errands. A Gaza waiter named Maher Sheikha carried his 12-year-old son Femeh through the mob, balanced across the destroyed metal fence and then climbed through barbed-wire tangles. Femeh was dying of a blood disease, and the only chance of recovery was rushing him to a Cairo hospital...
Meanwhile, challenger Sam Seidel, a wonkish Harvard-trained urban planner coming off of a narrow loss in 2005, won a place on the council, and Councillor David P. Maher, who was elected in a special election in September, retained his seat...
...feeling is that things are going pretty well in Cambridge right now,” Maher said. “It usually takes something to really rile people...