SYNOPSICS
Awake to Danger (1995) is a English movie. Michael Tuchner has directed this movie. Tori Spelling,Michael Gross,John Getz,Reed Diamond are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1995. Awake to Danger (1995) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
Several of the Collins' neighbors are victims of a series of burglaries. One evening, their house is tragically hit, too: Mr. Collins finds his wife dead in the bathroom, his 16-year-old daughter Aimee unconscious at the base of the stairs. She's in a coma for 18 months; when she wakes up, she can't remember anything from that fatal evening. But during her physical recovery she relives the happenings in her dreams more and more clearly. She becomes afraid that she might get a target of that murderer too.
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Awake to Danger (1995) Reviews
Amateur acting, amateur directing, poor sound and musical score
I thought that I was watching a high school play the acting, directing, sound and music score were so bad, but I have seen high school plays that are much better than this movie. I watched the movie on the Lifetime Movie Network and I was disappointed that they would even put this movie on their network. The plot and story line were good, and IMHO this movie needs to be remade using a different director and musical score and a better sound person. All the time I was watching the movie I kept hoping that it would get better, but it never did. Lifetime & LMN are my favorite channels usually showing only top quality movies that address important social issues and although the social issue addressed in the movie was an important one this movie was a definite disappointment. I would really enjoy watching a remake of this movie.
Spelling's performance made me wince. (spoilers)
'Awake to Danger' is a predictable drama, but one that Lifetime TV never seems to tire of airing. It is a form drama for Lifetime TV, meaning that it has been standardized, only the characters and the situation change slightly, but in the end, everything is nearly identical right down to the reasons for the crime. 'Awake to Danger,' however, takes that trite story and makes it nauseatingly worse with its story, actors, and dialogue. Tori Spelling takes the cake for bad acting as a young girl who witnessed the death of her mother. Except, she can't remember it so well, so the killer's identity still remains to be uncovered. So, we get one red herring after another because the writing is so thin, they have to elude you with cheap scare tactics, though some of which are too implausible to go along with. Not until after they have lead you to point fingers at everyone who shows up on screen do they finish you off with a stupid ending. Shae D'Lyn, probably the only tolerable actress in the cast as the monotoned sister, was completely wasted and should've had the lead role. But Spelling more than anyone else, really hams up this cheesefest, especially when it looks as though she's nearly laughing during those "traumatic" hypnosis scenes. It is definitely a movie I'd recommend not wasting your time on.
Awake? No, go back to sleep PLEASE
Now there's some kind of unwritten taboo law that we all 'feel' when watching TV films. We know they're generically cheaper, cheesier versions of their Hollywood cousins. But when TV films like "Awake to Murder" has such predictability it goes beyond pure punishment, and becomes difficult to even watch. The movie is has so many directorial, editing, lighting and even synchronizing flaws alone that I won't bother to comment on the story line much. I mean - what was the wardrobe department thinking when they take Michael Gross (Tori's dad) and have him sporting an Armani suit one night (with black turtleneck, leather shoes, et al), then pose him a rainbow colored white and striped shirt and bowtie while he reads poetry to his comatized daughter? The embarrassment alone of him being there dressed like that is enough. Doth he have no shame? With practical spotlight spill lighting and absolute sub-zero camera movement or creativity, the film leaves the viewer feeling like a corpse. It simply has no pulse. The title seems an almost in-joke prompt *not* to watch the movie - so I guess that leaves the selected audience Tori Spelling fans only.. Every else isn't off limits, they just won't care, trust me. For TV this is below average and derivative tripe. Until next time... Off the rock, on the ball and very user-friendly..
Spelling can't act, Diamond can. Inane dialogue and poor direction.
The movie had promise, but not with Tori Spelling. She can't act at all and, in my opinion, only works as an Actress because of who her father is. Reed Diamond on the other hand can act. But even this talented actor would have a problem where he is directed poorly and had to work off of an untalented actress. He made the best out of some rather inane dialogue and I'm sure any scene where he came off better than Tori Spelling surely ended up on the cutting room floor. She was the star and wasn't going to be upstaged by anyone. Not even a talented Actor. I really only watched the movie because of Reed Diamond. When will Hollywood learn?
Title of the movie was better then the movie itself!
Felt this was a very bad Tori Spelling acting vehicle. The only reason I tuned in was to watch Reed Diamond, who I felt was a fairly good actor from Homicide: Life on the Streets. I was rather disappointed. Reed Diamond has done some excellent work in several other movies and television shows (i.e., Law and Order, Memphis Belle, O Pioneer!)