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The family attempts to move on and overcome their grief which is difficult because nearly everyone blames themselves. Tomor.After the untimely death of their eldest daughter Jennifer (Kristin Cumming), Laura (Valerie Harper) and Phillip (Dennis Weaver) start new by moving into a different house with their two other children and Valerie’s mother Bernice (Ruth Gordon).

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Bad Ronald is Coming to DVD! Warner Archives Needs.Ruth Gordon keeps things quirky, as per her usual fashion, but also elicits sympathy and of course, gives grief wherever she can.Īnd those death scenes! I prefer not to give too much away, but look out for a lizard, a pizza cutter and a radio (not all in the same scene!) which become awesome potential murder tools. Harper and Weaver are fantastic as the beleaguered, sorrow-filled parents placing blame for their child’s death on themselves and on each other. After the end of The Brady Bunch in the early 70s, TVMs and shows definitely took a turn to the more realistic, showcasing the difficulties in keeping the unit together and Sleep really capitalizes on that struggle. Dysfunctional families have always existed in film, but rarely lived on television (at this point in time). But the shocks, of which there are plenty, wouldn’t have worked so much if the family dynamic wasn't so dead on (no pun intended!). Maybe it’s because it’s a wonderfully shot tale about the universal issues of loss and repressed guilt and that it hits every horror beat perfectly. Like all good ghost stories, Sleep has a timeless quality to it and has aged very well, still playing as straight horror even now. The great Ruth Gordon telling it like it T-I-IS Jennifer is one ticked off ghost, and is out for blood. Then one night Jennifer (Kristin Cumming) appears in front of her little sister Mary (Ignico) and sinister things start happening around the house.

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Each family member carries some guilt over the death, but no one is truly willing to either discuss it or look deep enough into their feelings to free themselves. We find out that they have lost a daughter named Jennifer, who was killed in a horrible car accident. At the outset things seem fairly normal until they arrive (it might be worthwhile to note the address contains the numbers 666). Weaver plays Phillip, a father who is moving his two kids (Robin Ignico & Oliver Robins), wife Laura (Valerie Harper) and mother-in-law Bernice (Ruth Gordon) to a new home. Maybe it fell through the cracks because it came out after the made for television horror rage, but it definitely deserves to be on the list of the best small screen genre films of that era, and ought to be considered a love letter to a dying breed. I find that fans of made for television movies adore this film, and it certainly transcends the medium, so I find it odd that it never became a part of the casual viewer lexicon like Trilogy of Terror or the other Don’t movie, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. In 1982 he did another awesome turn in the oft-forgotten ghostly Don’t Go to Sleep. Whether he was a big city cowboy or put-upon dad, he was just so easy to watch.

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Weaver ran the gamut on the small screen playing everything from a protective husband/father defending his clan against a gang of bikers to a cokehead real estate agent! He was also so unabashedly unpretentious, I always found him to be a totally contagious addition to whatever film or series he graced.

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Weaver became an iconic presence in TV movies when he starred in the Spielberg classic Duel (1971) but he was always that kind of cool - He was the kind of class act that made watching television so much fun.