PREVIEW: Awake (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Gina Rodriguez (Deepwater Horizon), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Possessor), Barry Pepper (The Green Mile), Finn Jones (The Last Showing), Shamier Anderson (Stowaway), Ariana Greenblatt (Love and Monsters), Frances Fisher (Titanic), Lucius Hoyos (The Colony), Gil Bellows (The Shawshank Redemption), Elias Edraki (He Never Died)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Mark Raso (Kodachrome), director, writer; Joseph Raso (film debut), writer; Paul Schiff (Mona Lisa Smile), producer; Alan Poon (Copenhagen), cinematographer; Michele Conroy (Splice), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A mysterious global event suddenly takes away people’s ability to sleep, as well as wiping out all technology. As the world struggles under the new circumstances, a former soldier (Rodriguez) finds a potential solution with her daughter Matilda (Greenblatt)…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Netflix’s newest high-concept sci-fi thriller explores a world where sleep is suddenly impossible, and how humanity – the unstable, trigger-happy species that we are – will surely react negatively to it.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 11TH JUNE 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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