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  • Waking Life
  • Opened October 17, 2001 | Runtime:1 hr. 39 min.
  • R
    some violent images and language
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. Read More
  • Transcending the boundaries of technology and imagination, ``Waking Life'' is a revolutionary breakthrough in film animation. In ``Waking Life,'' Wiley Wiggins (``Dazed and Confused'') travels through a series of encounters and observations in a Read More
  • Cast: Wiley Wiggins
  • Director: Richard Linklater
  • Genres: Avant-garde / Experimental, Ensemble Film

Waking Life Critic Reviews

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  • 100
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    Intriguing, arresting, delightfully refusing to be pigeonholed.

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    An amazing thing -- a work of cinematic art in which form and structure pursues...

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    I have seen Waking Life three times now. I want to see it again -- not to...

  • 90
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    A smart cartoon about the life of the mind. It's about the fuzzy border between...

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