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Dream for an Insomniac
A dreamer who couldn't sleep. An author who couldn't write. A friend who couldn't help but help.
A dreamer who couldn't sleep. An author who couldn't write. A friend ...
Comedy, Drama, Romance - 1996
Dream for an Insomniac
5.9
50%
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A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to L.A. with a friend sure that he will dump the girlfriend and follow her. She puts all her faith in fate and hopes for the best.
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Details

Rated:
R
Runtime:
87 min
Release date:
18 Apr 1996
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
N/A

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Dream for an Insomniac is really a self-conscious modern sitcom that with its San Francisco setting suggests a pale shadow of Armistead Maupin's Tales From the City.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
It's talky, clumsy and a bit trivial, but the talk is rarely dull, and there's an integrity about its clumsiness: It's harder to be smooth when you have things you really want to say.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
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