A melodramatic story and a refined filmmaking touch meet each other halfway in "The Sleepy Time Gal." Third feature by Christopher Munch feels like an attempt by a fastidious artist to nudge himself ...

Towering above other films so far previewed for the Los Angeles Film Festival, which commences Friday at various venues, is Christopher Munch’s “The Sleepy Time Gal.” Munch first came to attention ...

With Jacqueline Bisset, Martha Plimpton, Nick Stahl, Amy Madigan, Frankie R. Faison, Carmen Zapata, Peggy Gormley, and Seymour Cassel. On March 29 two new American independent features of some ...

When Jacqueline Bisset got the script for "Sleepy Time Gal," an indie film in which she plays a woman dying of cancer, friends begged her not to do it. "They said, 'Oh Jackie, don't die. For God's ...

Jacqueline Bisset, still one of the screen’s great beauties, gets a chance to shine in Christopher Munch’s “The Sleepy Time Gal” and she seizes it, scoring a poignant triumph. Playing a role of almost ...

In Christopher Münch’s The Sleepy Time Gal, a middle-aged woman’s cancer diagnosis spurs attempts at resolution and reconciliation. But where most films about terminal illness hang a millstone of ...

The tale of a lonely, cancer-stricken woman and the long-lost daughter who quietly seeks a reunion, Christopher Münch's The Sleepy Time Gal calls to mind the classic "female weepies" of the '30s and ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it.

Christopher Munch, one of America’s most gifted independent filmmakers, follows his features The Hours and Times (1991) and Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day (1996) with this lovely and moving 2001 ...