Awake

Jessica Alba, Hayden Christenson, and Terrence Howard star in first-time director/screenwriter Joby Harold's nerve-jangling psychological thriller about a man who experiences the frighteningly common surgical phenomenon known as "anesthetic awareness," in which those laid out on the operating table ...more

Awake is one of those psychological thrillers whose existence is justified merely by the fact that no one has made this exact movie before. (That same fall, a similar example of a first-timer came out -- P2, the stalker-hostage story set in a parking garage). But Awake has something else going for it, which defies its many cheesy concessions to genre norms. Namely -- and this doesn't quite qualify as a spoiler -- almost none of the characters end up quite who you thought they'd be. Awake sets up ...more