| Sleep with Me | |
| Director: | Rory Kelly |
| Producer: | Michael Steinberg, Eric Stoltz, Roger Hedden[1] |
| Music: | David Nessim Lawrence |
| Cinematography: | Andrzej Sekuła |
| Editing: | David Moritz |
| Studio: | August Entertainment Castleberg Production Paribas Film Corporation United Artists |
| Distributor: | MGM/UA Distribution Co. |
| Runtime: | 86 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Gross: | $200,151 |
Sleep with Me is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Rory Kelly and starring Meg Tilly, Eric Stoltz and Craig Sheffer, who play good friends that become involved in a love triangle, a relationship complicated by the marriage of Tilly's and Stoltz's characters.
It also features Parker Posey, Joey Lauren Adams, and a cameo by Quentin Tarantino, in which he expounds on the homoerotic subtext of Top Gun to Todd Field. Six different writers wrote a scene each about the arc and development of the relation between the protagonists, including Kelly.
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.[2] The film was a Gala Presentation at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]
The film received mostly negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a 21% rating, based on 14 reviews.[4]
Despite playing to standing ovations at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and being surrounded by a great deal of early buzz, the film suffered from distribution issues—namely, that it was acquired by a reorganized MGM and not a specialty division. Consequently it made no more festival appearances, was marketed by MGM as a mainstream romp, and was ignored by most top critics. One of the exceptions was Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times. who wrote
(Sourced from IMDb[6])