Director Alan Berliner's Wide Awake (HBO, Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET) is possibly a minor masterpiece of documentary impressionism, possibly an indulgently punchy memoir, probably both...
For sure, its ideal viewer meets the following conditions: 1) A turkey sandwich and half a glass of milk in front of you, you come across it on a channel somewhat more obscure than Home Box Office at 3:38 a.m. 2) You drift for a while between its idiosyncratic grasp and the smooth arms of Morpheus; next thing you know, the damn sparrows are trilling. 3) Years pass, and, though you remember the movie fondly and often, you cannot remember its title and begin to suspect that it was a mere figment of an REM cycle. 4) You find it on TV, half a decade later, on the set in your in-laws' living room, once again, exactly at 3:38 a.m. Weird and wonderfully, Wide Awake really earns its subtitle—Portrait of an Artist as Insomniac.
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