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Directed by | Mark Raso |
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Story by | Gregory Poirier |
Produced by | Paul Schiff |
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Cinematography | Alan Poon |
Edited by | Michele Conroy |
Music by | Antonio Pinto |
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Distributed by | Netflix |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Awake is a 2021 American apocalyptic science fiction thriller film, directed by Mark Raso, from a screenplay he wrote alongside Joseph Raso. It stars Gina Rodriguez, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barry Pepper, Finn Jones, Shamier Anderson, Ariana Greenblatt, Frances Fisher, Elias Edraki, Lucius Hoyos and Gil Bellows. Rodriguez plays Jill (Rodriguez) who discovers her daughter (Greenblatt) may be immune to a disorder causing mass chronic sleep deprivation and attempts to bring her daughter to a laboratory to help develop a cure.
The film was released by Netflix on June 9, 2021,[1][2] and received generally negative reviews from film critics who criticized the derivative plot and lack of tension. However, it reached number one worldwide on the platform when it was released.[3]