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Sleeping Giant 2015 123movies

Sleeping Giant 2015 123movies

May. 14, 201589 Min.
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Watch: Sleeping Giant 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – The Hudsons – husband and wife William and Linda, and their fifteen year old son Adam – are spending the summer, like they have the several recent past summers, at their cottage on the northwestern shore of Lake Superior. William and Linda are still trying to perpetuate them being the perfect family, which they have been able to do as Adam is still closer emotionally to childhood than he is to adulthood and still largely follows parental rules. However, William wants to be both Adam’s father and best friend as he is encouraging Adam to pursue Taylor, a similarly aged girl Adam has known forever at the lake. Adam doesn’t want to admit to anyone that he does like Taylor in that way, he justifying his non-action by not wanting to ruin their friendship. This summer for the first time, Adam hangs out with cousins Riley and Nate, who are a little rougher around the edges than him. They are spending the summer with their permissive grandmother, Riley living with her permanently since the death of his parents. Riley and Nate’s relationship is characterized by roughhousing, smoking (both cigarettes and weed), petty theft, hazing type rituals such as vandalism, and oneupmanship in the form of dares in feats of what they see as masculinity. Adam gets caught up in their life, with William’s blessing in wanting again to act the friend, although Adam does consider Riley a true friend, the more sensitive one, as opposed to Nate who is all teen bravado. Adam has reason to be drawn more to the cousins than to his parents this summer, in him discovering that his family is less than perfect. However, as Adam tries to be who everyone wants him to be, he may have to grow up quickly without that true responsible guidance to show him the way..
Plot: A coming-of-age tale that turns on three teenagers who are having a vacation by a lakeside.
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Ratings:

6.6/10 Votes: 1,791
87% | RottenTomatoes
71/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 31 Popularity: 2.412 | TMDB

Reviews:

Some Serious Contenders for the Darwin Award
“Sleeping Giant” is a low-key Canadian film that builds to an explosive climax; even if sensitive coming of age stories tend to give you the indie fidgets, I’d still recommend this one. It does start out slowly, with improv’d ensemble scenes (quite convincing), standard montages of teenagers doing carefree teenage stuff and gorgeous shots of the Lake Superior shoreline.

The POV character, Adam, is too shy and passive to generate much storyline on his own—how many kids like that grow up make indie films?, I wonder—though the shaky family dynamic is laid out very nicely: A scene where Adam’s well intentioned but clumsy dad urges him to start something with his childhood friend, Taylor—now a lovely young woman who’s caught the eye of one of Adam’s bad-boy cousins—signals clearly that Dad may be up to something himself…

These and a few more wispy, unresolved subplots don’t build up much momentum till the final scenes, beginning with a teenage tantrum that busts up a family Monopoly game… (I know, pretty Canadian, eh?) Great performances by the teenage principals, esp. first-time actor Nick Serino as another bad-boy cousin, Nate, the tantrum thrower. Not essential, but still quite watchable and available on streaming Netflix—otherwise how would we ever get to see it?

Review By: The_late_Buddy_Ryan
The Strains of Boyhood, Brilliantly Portrayed
Andrew Cividino, in his feature-length directorial debut, has masterfully captured the behavior and stresses of typical adolescent boys. The slip-fighting, trash-talking, hijinks, humor, poor judgment, and friendship will take adult male viewers on a trip through time, and the attractive and engaging cast will capture female viewers as well.

The movie’s three teen leads-first-time actors Jackson Martin as the wimpy, red-haired Adam Hudson, Nick Serino as the mouthy, ever-challenging Nate, and Reece Moffett as Nick’s brooding and likeable cousin Riley-carry the story like veterans, largely because they were given rope to suggest scenes, ad-lib lines, and be themselves. Serino won his role as Nate in a casting call in his native Thunder Bay, Ontario. When no suitable Riley was found, Nick suggested his real-life cousin Reece, also a local. Indeed, Rita Serino, who plays the cousins’ grandmother, is their real-life grandmother! Such casting doesn’t sound like a formula for good filmmaking, but, here, it works. The boys won two international awards for ensemble acting and each of them won a nomination, or award, for best supporting actor at a major film festival with Nick winning Best Supporting Actor at the Canadian Screen Awards (“Canadian Oscars”). Needless to say, director Andrew Cividino cleaned up on major directorial awards, winning six.

The entire story unfolds on location in the Sunnyside Beach community of Amethyst Harbour a few miles from Thunder Bay. While spending a summer with his parents there, Adam is befriended by Nate and Riley who are summering with their grandmother nearby. The trio engage in typical rambunctious behavior, much of it resisted by wimpy Adam, to include skateboarding, cliff jumping, wrestling, sling-shot wars, egging homes, tobacco chewing, stealing beer, playing basketball, falling from golf carts, and smoking pot. At one point, Adam balks at a 35-foot cliff jump. As Nate yells, “You coward inbred f-k…jump!!” from below, Riley turns to Adam and says, matter-of-factly, “Look, if you jump, the worst that’s going to happen is that you might get physically injured. If you don’t jump, there’s a 100% chance that Nate’s gonna mentally abuse you all summer for not jumping.”

But the plot is not all basketballs and beer. The mood darkens when Nate reveals a secret to Adam, one that alters his character. Then Nate brings the movie to a boil as the boys play a board game with Adam’s parents. Irritated by a game rule, Nick goes on a frank, obscenity-laced rant in which he trashes his adult hosts and openly humiliates Riley, earning himself a bloody nose. Finally, the mood goes fully dark when a suggested coming-of-age theme drives Adam to tell a lie, a lie that brings the movie to an emotional and well-foreshadowed conclusion. Five of the last six words in the movie are f-bombs. Given the context, you won’t even notice.

The boys’ interactions are typical, genuine, and believable, and the trio leads the viewer through an entire range of teen emotions from bored, funny, happy, lovesick, flip, fearful, sarcastic, melancholy, angry, jealous, embarrassed, courageous, and sad. If I find any fault, it’s that the movie ends too soon. You could watch these three kids act all evening. The movie is a remake of a 2014 short film in which Reece and Nick also starred and is beautifully filmed and nicely scored.

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Exact Google Earth Filming Locations (use 6-6-2017 imagery date)

Lakeside front yard, 48° 32′ 35.34″ N 88° 54′ 13.39″ W (community fair scene)

House and lakeside front yard, 48° 32′ 34.73″ N 88° 54′ 3.54″ W (Hudson’s summer cabin; outdoor baseball toss scenes)

Back yard, 48° 32′ 33.51″ N 88° 53′ 53.42″ W (trampoline scene)

Pier, 48° 32′ 31.97″ N 88° 53′ 52.49″ W (pier scenes with Adam and Taylor and with boys chewing tobacco)

Sunnyside Beach, 48° 32′ 32.25″ N 88° 53′ 51.82″ W (final scene with Adam and Riley)

Roadside, 48° 32′ 35.58 “N 88° 53 51.36″ W (drunken Riley stuck in truck)

Recreational area, 48° 32′ 37″ N 88° 53′ 58″ W (opening swing set scene; basketball scene; community games scene)

Sunnyside Beach, 48° 32′ 32.68″ N 88° 53′ 33.74″ W (early wrestling scene)

Crystal Beach Variety (Sunys gas station), 48° 32′ 38.02″ N 88° 54′ 47.83″ W (beer theft scene)

The Fish Shop, 48° 32′ 38.78″ N 88° 54′ 57.90″ W (fish shop scene)

Rocky cascade, 48° 32 ‘2.72″ N 88° 56′ 30.08″ W (Adam sitting on rock under bridge)

35-foot cliff, Caribou Island, 48° 31′ 34.21″ N 88° 49′ 39.26″ W (first cliff jump scene)

100-foot cliff (Todd’s Cliff), Caribou Island, 48° 31’ 39.60″ N 88° 50 ‘1.60″ W (boating scene and final cliff jump scene)

The Sleeping Giant, 48° 20′ 0.22″ N 88° 54’ 31.52” W (multiple distant views)

Review By: swedeboi

Other Information:

Original Title Sleeping Giant
Release Date 2015-05-14
Release Year 2015

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Adventure, Drama
Director Andrew Cividino
Writer Andrew Cividino, Blain Watters, Aaron Yeger
Actors Jackson Martin, Nick Serino, Reece Moffett
Country Canada
Awards 11 wins & 18 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Red Epic
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format N/A

Sleeping Giant 2015 123movies
Sleeping Giant 2015 123movies
Original title Sleeping Giant
TMDb Rating 6.3 31 votes

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