About this episode

The episode discusses the film 'Wide Awake', its background, and its significance in M. Night Shyamalan's career.

On Episode #162 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, Bryan, Dan, Preston, and Chelsea crack their eyelids open for Wide Awake, the charmingly odd little comedy-drama that spent years gathering dust on a Harvey Weinstein shelf before escaping into the world as M. Night Shyamalan's first feature, long before dead people started chatting with Haley Joel Osment. The post Episode #162 – Wide Awake (1998) first appeared on Boomstick Comics .

People in this episode

Host: Bryan Kluger

Topics covered

• comedy-drama
• film history
• M. Night Shyamalan
• Harvey Weinstein
• cinema analysis

Keywords

• Wide Awake
• M. Night Shyamalan
• Harvey Weinstein
• comedy-drama
• film analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvey Weinstein

Books & works: Wide Awake

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