Her daughter Rebecca (Martha Plimpton), whom she held in her arms after birth and never saw again, has been adopted by a success-oriented academic couple residing in Boston and has grown to be a successful corporate lawyer in a NYC blue chip law firm. She still questions her decision to give up her baby daughter for adoption. One is about a free-spirited mother, Frances, who seeks to put her life in order after she comes down with a terminal illness. “Sleepy” seamlessly tells two parallel stories.
This is the kind of film an intelligent viewer is said to be pining for. Why this film never caught on with the public is a mystery to me, as it played only on the Sundance Channel until its recent video release. His mom’s part is elegantly played in a sensitive portrayal with great depth by Jacqueline Bisset as Frances, whose presence holds the film together. Münch is a major talent and this film is up there in quality with Paul Cox’s Innocence as far as an intelligent script for a woman’s pic woven from gloom but never feeling gloomy. “A captivating and intimate study about dying and loving…”Ĭhristopher Münch (“ The Hours and Times (1991)”/” Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day (1996)”) is director, writer, editor, and producer of this marvelous indie semiautobiographical drama about the director’s mother that started filming in 1997 and took three years to complete. Münch’ book “Betty” cinematographers: Marco Fargnoli/Rob Sweeney editors: Annette Davey/Dody Dorn music: Dan Barret cast: Jacqueline Bisset (Frances), Martha Plimpton (Rebecca), Nick Stahl (Morgan), Amy Madigan (Maggie), Frankie Faison (Jimmy Dupree), Carmen Zapata (Anna, Frances’ mother), Peggy Gormley (Betty), Seymour Cassel (Bob), Molly Price (Rebecca’s Colleague), Kate McGregor-Stewart (Miriam), Clara Bellar (Mushroom Girl), Justin Theroux (Rebecca’s Boyfriend), Mark Tymchyshyn (Larry Mosher), Jessica Brooks Grant (Young Frances) Runtime: 94 MPAA Rating: R producers: Ruth Charny/Roni Deitz Antarctic Pictures 2001) SLEEPY TIME GAL, THE (director/writer/editor/producer: Christopher Münch screenwriters: Alice Elliott Dark/excerpts from Mr.
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