Sleepwalk with Me (2012) on Netflix
Matt Pandamiglio is a stand-up comedian tending bar at a comedy club while his career goes nowhere. He moves in with Abby, his girlfriend of eight years, and begins sleepwalking.
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Plot summary
Matt Pandamiglio is a stand-up comedian who tends bar at a comedy club, and his stage material is still what he wrote back in college. He has reservations but moves in with Abby, the girlfriend he has had for eight years. At the engagement party of his sister Janet, his relatives ask when he intends to marry, and his first episode of sleepwalking happens that night. Abby finds his total lack of interest in marriage odd. Janet wonders whether the two of them should take a breather. A second episode sends him off a dresser, and his father, Frank, tells him to see a sleep specialist, though Matt plays the problem down.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sleepwalk with Me (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Birbiglia's performance of an excerpt from his one-man show at The Moth was used as the first act of "Fear of Sleep", the August 8, 2008 episode of This American Life, and the show's host Ira Glass ended up working with Birbiglia to write and produce the film.
- Before making the film, Birbiglia had already told the autobiographical story of his struggles to become a stand-up comedian while dealing with REM behavior disorder and a failing relationship in a one-man show and a book.
