Cividino depicts the tricky male power games between the boys with tact and compassionate impartiality.
Sleeping Giant
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Canada · 2015
1h 29m
Director Andrew Cividino
Starring Jackson Martin, Nick Serino, Reece Moffett, David Disher
Genre Adventure, Drama
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Bored during a lakeside summer vacation, three teenage boys decide to test their limits in a variety of ways for sheer entertainment, not realizing that these experiences will shape them for the rest of their lives.
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The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak
These young actors are superb in their roles, each embodying the complexities of early teen life and the adult struggles they face without the maturity to appropriately handle.
Perhaps most impressive is how, despite the nostalgia inherent in this kind of endeavor, "Sleeping Giant" never sentimentalizes its story, and never compromises on the essentially bleak idea that you can be transformed from a carefree child shading your eyes from the glare of a huge, wide future to a scarred and haunted young adult in a single moment.
The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin
What’s particularly admirable here is the way the cast and filmmakers illuminate not just the wit and charm of young men, but also the callow cruelty of youth, driven by a killer combination of naïve idealism, solipsism, poor self-esteem and raging hormones.
Screen International by Tim Grierson
The ceaseless stupidity of men is lamented but also dissected in Sleeping Giant, a thoughtful, well-observed but also familiar coming-of-age drama.
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