Sleeping Beauty details

Sleeping Beauty
Formats: 18 DVD, Blu-ray, LOVEFiLM Instant
Starring: Emily Browning, Michael Dorman, Mirrah Foulkes
Director: Julia Leigh
Genre: Drama - Gay/Lesbian, General
Studio: REVOLVER ENTERTAINMENT
Collections: 2012's Top Films, Best of HD, Best of LOVEFiLM Instant, Critic's Choice, Exclusives, February - Drama, HD Films, LOVEFiLM Exclusives
Title Runtime Certificate
Sleeping Beauty
1hr 37 mins 18

LOVEFiLM Instant Information

Run time: 1 hour 37 minutes
Rental release: To be confirmed
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  • 3 stars out of 5  

    By Tom Charity from LOVEFiLM

    An adult fairytale with an elegantly creepy feel, Julia Leigh's film draws you in but leaves you wondering where you've ended up.

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  • let sleeping beauties lie, atleast this one!

    Rated - 1.0 star  
    By HoveringBob (12 reviews) from St. Albans , 15 Feb 2012

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    Weird! What a shame and what a waste of 90 odd minutes. A great concept for a story, shame it doesn't actually fulfil the potential. There are too many extraneous, unexplained scenes; the fact that some are repeated doesn’t clarify the script or move the story on. E. g. what is the scene on the train with the drooling sleeping woman about? It adds nothing to the already drawn out story line. A great waste of Emily Browning’s talent although it was nice to see her naked! If there is a story in there, other than the basic premise of a drugged young woman serving the erotic needs of old, incapable men, then it is so well hidden it doesn’t exist. Great idea, badly written. What a pity.
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  • disapointing to say the least

    Rated - 2.0 stars  
    By Tinap (14 reviews) , 14 Jun 2013
    started off with a good storyline but somewhere along the lines it lost it completely wooden acting and the end was a complete mystery, dont bother its a waste of your time
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  • JUST DONT

    Rated - 0.5 stars  
    By Aspey (3 reviews) , 08 Jun 2013
    f**k me what a drag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONT BOTHER seriously its got to be the worst film ive seen 4 a long time, ive seen some s**t 1's!
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  • Naked nonsense

    Rated - 1.0 star  
    By yesterdayman (21 reviews) , 05 Jun 2013

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    Just couldn't engage with this film. The only feelings about it I can recall are; weirdness throughout, and revulsion and and creepiness from time to time. For me the whole thing was totally pointless. Because of the content of the film you will of course get a lot of pretentious tosh about it's artistic merits, I didn't find any. Neither in spite of the leading character being naked most of the time is it in any way erotic. It was a complete waste of time
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  • Flawed but interesting with a stand out performance.

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By Brasco (3 reviews) , 27 May 2013
    Sleeping Beauty is a slow burner of a film. It has many delicious moments and ideas but likes to keep it's distance in terms of really letting you in the head of Lucy. It hints at an insight, we see her break down, maybe even fall in love but we are never sure of who she is and where she'll end up. There are many holes in the plot too which ultimately take a star away from this film. The one reason to watch this movie is Emily Browning who is simply fantastic as Lucy. It's brave cinema and an extremely brave performance in some particularly uncomfortable scenes. It's worth noting, practically every scene is filmed wide and in one long take. An interesting movie that's not for everyone but definitely worth a watch.
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  • should be longer...

    Rated - 3.5 stars  
    By laure (2 reviews) , 11 May 2013
    lovely movie, brilliant story line apart from the ending!! i just dont get the end should be longer, a little bit confusing!!
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