Sleep Dealer

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Sleep Dealer

PG-13,

2009,

1h 29m,

Sci-Fi

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Memo (Luis Fernando Peña) is a hacker living an impoverished existence in the degraded Mexico of the future. Upon detecting his hacking activities, the military attacks his home. Memo escapes to Tijuana, where he becomes involved with Luz (Leonor Varela), a journalist who plugs her body into the Internet and sells her memories for others to download. When Luz takes on a mysterious assignment and Memo lands a high-tech factory job, they descend into a cyber-nightmare and discover a deadly truth.

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Critics Consensus

Sleep Dealer's depth and energy are almost enough to overcome a shaky screenplay and pedestrian acting.

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Jordan Hoffman

UGO

Aug 11, 2009

A-

This Sundance hit takes the "jacking in" premise we've seen in everything from Neuromancer to eXistenZ and looks at it from the point of view of third world migrant workers.

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Peter Hartlaub

Houston Chronicle

Jun 19, 2009

2/4

Sleep Dealer is flawed, but still vibrant and inventive. Whether he finds larger budgets or keeps doing movie like this, Rivera is definitely a filmmaker to follow.

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Brian Tallerico

Movie Retriever

Jun 6, 2009

I'm glad to have science fiction back in the forefront in 2009 but that doesn't mean they're all going to work. Consider Sleep Dealer a near-miss.

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Alejandro Hirsch Saed

PopMatters

Sep 12, 2022

Sleep Dealer seems to argue that, through storytelling, multicultural collaboration, and spectacular action, even in the most extreme cases, the border is still an imaginary space that can be broken.

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Jorge (JJ) Negrete

Butaca Ancha

Sep 17, 2015

An important movie with a lot of deep themes and spearpoint for the new Mexican sci-fi. [Full review in Spanish]

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Mark R. Leeper

Mark Leeper's Reviews

Mar 19, 2015

9/10

full of plausible evolutions of current technology with a believable if not pleasant feel for how these changes will fit into our world.

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Alex Rivera

Director

Luis Fernando Peña

Memo

Leonor Varela

Luz Martínez

Jacob Vargas

Judy

Metztli Adamina

Dolores Cruz

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Synopsis

Memo (Luis Fernando Peña) is a hacker living an impoverished existence in the degraded Mexico of the future. Upon detecting his hacking activities, the military attacks his home. Memo escapes to Tijuana, where he becomes involved with Luz (Leonor Varela), a journalist who plugs her body into the Internet and sells her memories for others to download. When Luz takes on a mysterious assignment and Memo lands a high-tech factory job, they descend into a cyber-nightmare and discover a deadly truth.

Director: Alex Rivera
Producer: Anthony Bregman
Screenwriter: Alex Rivera, David Riker
Distributor: Maya Releasing
Rating: PG-13 (Sexuality|Some Violence)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 17, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $75.7K
Runtime: 1h 29m

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