Sleep Dealer
Mexico, United States
2008
90 Min
Color
1.85:1
English, Spanish
Synopsis
The place: Mexico. The time: The near future. Memo Cruz has always dreamed of leaving his tiny village and heading north to a big city where he can work in a modern, high-tech factory. Finally, his dream becomes a reality…and his reality becomes a nightmare! Memo finds himself in a terrifyingly bizarre world of border walls, shanty towns, high-tech factories, remote control drones and aqua-terrorists a world of tomorrow that will soon be today! Winner of two prestigious awards at the Sundance Film Festival, and nominated for both the Gotham Awards and Independent Spirit Awards, this groundbreaking film has been praised by critics and audiences alike. –Maya Entertainment
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Sci-Fi's making a move!
By Maicol Andrés Ordoñez on January 12, 2010
SLEEP DEALER and DISTRICT 9 both did great jobs of pushing sci-fi as mystic allegories for contemporary social commentaries. The problem is that the filmmaking/ storytelling still wasn’t quite there… read review
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