The Sleepy Time Gal

Two women connected by family are drawn closer by fate in this low-key drama. Frances (Jacqueline Bisset) is a woman in her early fifties who had already begun to sense time was running out for her when she learned that she has cancer. While Frances is fighting the disease through medical treatment, ...more

This hushed drama from indie maverick Christopher Munch never received a theatrical release despite some good reviews upon its premiere at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Starring a superb Jacqueline Bisset as a woman dying of cancer, The Sleepy Time Gal is about the search for identity -- a search that, Munch suggests, lasts a lifetime. Even as Rebecca (Martha Plimpton), an Ivy League-educated career woman, seeks the woman who gave her up for adoption when she was an infant, Frances (Bisset) ...more