“Come on, grab her leg.”

From Awake.

Widowed mother Jill (Gina Rodriguez) works nights as a security guard at a university, trying to get back full custody of her kids, Noah (Lucius Hoyos) and Matilda (Ariana Greenblatt). When her mother-in-law Doris (Frances Fisher) lets Jill spend an afternoon with the kids, Jill’s car dies, crashing into a lake. They’re all able to make it out of the car, but Matilda has to be revived by the police performing CPR. The officers inform Jill that all electricity is out, including cellphones and cars. Unsure what’s going on, Jill takes the kids back to Doris and gets ready for work later. While everyone except Matilda is unable to fall asleep, they consider it a result of the stressful day, but when Jill goes to work, she learns that it’s much worse. Jill’s coworker (Finn Jones) and her boss, Dr. Murphy (Jennifer Jason Leigh), tell her that no one has been able to sleep since everything shut off. Murphy asks Jill to come work security for her at a research center to study the one woman they’ve found that can sleep, but Jill refuses in order to stay with her kids. When Jill’s coworker learns that Matilda can sleep, he pushes Jill and Noah to take her to the center, but Jill is uncertain if she can really trust Murphy’s methods. Knowing that the human brain and body can only function for so long without sleep, Noah convinces Jill to get Matilda to the center. As the sleepless days carry on, Jill struggles with the journey while battling fatigue, hallucinations, and diminishing mental capacities. As Jill struggles to decide if she can trust Murphy with Matilda’s safety, she also fights to keep Matilda hidden from people along the way (including Barry Pepper and Shamier Anderson), because her ability to sleep makes the little girl an instant target.

This post-apocalyptic thriller will have viewers on the edge of their seat from start to finish. Rodriguez impressively leads the cast through the film that perfectly matches the special effects and camera work to the progression of the characters’ sleep-deprived mental destruction. A captivating story, Awake is a must-watch for fans of thrilling action movies.

| Rated: TV-MA | Running Time: 96 minutes |Genre: thriller/action|

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 5* of 10|Nudity: 3 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 8 of 10

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