Fade (2007)
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17% of users liked it
(220 ratings)
Director/screenwriter Anthony Stagliano uses a rare genetic disorder that refuses to let the body shut down as a jumping off point to explore such issues as identity and faithfulness in a world where dreams and reality are indistinguishable. Arthur Dichter (David Connolly) is a devoted husband… More Director/screenwriter Anthony Stagliano uses a rare genetic disorder that refuses to let the body shut down as a jumping off point to explore such issues as identity and faithfulness in a world where dreams and reality are indistinguishable. Arthur Dichter (David Connolly) is a devoted husband suffering from a rare genetic disorder known as fatal familial insomnia. A disorder that typically doesn't manifest itself until adulthood, fatal familial insomnia causes the afflicted to suffer insomnia, intense phobias, panic attacks, hallucinations, dementia, and ultimately death. As Arthur slips ever deeper into the grips of fatal familial insomnia, he wanders the city streets in a sleepless bid to keep his body moving. After losing the ability to communicate, Arthur begins to self-mutilate and record his thoughts in a diary that he will not even share with his long-suffering wife, Anna (Sarah Lassez). His doctor begins to speculate that Arthur may be suicidal, but Anna knows that her husband is simply locked in a strange new reality from which the only escape is death. As despair, loneliness, and alienation take hold, Anna refuses to allow her husband to slip away without one last valiant fight. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Anthony Stagliano
- Written By
- Anthony Stagliano
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Mar 19, 2008 Limited
- Studio
- Cinema Epoch
Critic Reviews
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Maureen M. Hart, Chicago Tribune
Arthur provides some overly mannered narration via a journal he's been keeping, but that also offers few clues to how much of what we're seeing is real or imagined.
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Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
It would be nice to say that Fade cures the very thing that it's about, sleeplessness. But that wouldn't convey the pretentiousness of this psychological drama.
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Matthew Nestel, Boxoffice Magazine
Words need not apply to this overly drawn-out picture where all 74 suffering minutes become an artificial scramble of missed attempts at isolation, lost love and disintegration.
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Cast
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David Connolly
as Arthur Dichter
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Sarah Lassez
as Anna Dichter
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Michael T. Weiss
as Dr. McCabe
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Devon Odessa
as Philosophy
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Anthony Drazan
as Inspector Shea
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Andrea Morris
as Heloise
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Steven Petrarca
as Dr. Coleman
- David Connelly
- Erin Elizabeth Esteves
- Sandra Seacat
