Waking Life

Waking Life

January 23, 2001 Theatrical Detour Film Productions

Studio
Detour Film Production, Line Research, Thousand Words
Distributor
20th Century Fox

Synopsis

A man named Wiggins walks through his dream into different scenarios.

Characters

Hit-and-run Driver, Bartender

Credits

Directing

Director
Richard Linklater

Writing

Writer
Richard Linklater

Voices

Voice
Peter Atherton (Hit-and-Run Driver), Wiley Wiggins (Main character), Louis Black (Kierkegaard disciple), Ken Webster (Bartender), Trevor Jack Brooks (Young boy playing paper game), Julie Delpy (Celine), Charles Gunning (Angry man in jail), Ethan Hawke (Jesse), Alex Jones (Man in Car with P.A.), Mona Lee (Quiet Woman), Lorelie Linklater (Young Girl), Edith Mannix, Caveh Zahedi (Himself), Timothy 'Speed' Levitch (Himself), Steven Soderbergh (Himself), Louis Mackey (Himself), Robert C. Solomon (Himself), Richard Linklater, Bill Wise, Steven Prince, Steve Brudniak, John Christensen, Nicky Katt, Kim Krizan

Music

Music
Glover Gill

Animation

Animator
Bob Sabiston (Animation Director)

Editing

Editor
Sandra Adair

Production notes

Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah.

Reviews

Waking Life

damfineMarch 1, 2006

Free tip: BLATANT ROTOSCOPING DOES NOT EQUAL ANIMATION!!! And it's way too long for being the artsy-fartsy film that it is. BIG thumbs down from me.