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Snoozing Through Life
Mike Birbiglia revisits his Sleepwalk story
SLEEPWALK WITH ME: Directed by Mike Birbiglia.
Screenplay by Mike Birbiglia, Joe Birbiglia, Ira Glass
and Seth Barrish. Cinematography, Adam Beckman.
Editor, Geoffrey Richman. Music, Andrew Hollander.
Starring Mike Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose, James
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ike Birbiglia’s life story is
determined to come to you in all
forms. In 2010, the comedian’s
book Sleepwalk with Me and Other
Painfully True Stories — a series of
stories, half painful and half funny, about
the comedian’s life, career and bouts with
sleepwalking — was released. Sleepwalk
with Me had already been an off-Broadway
show, and reading the book was more fun
if you listened to some of his bits fi rst;
Birbiglia’s delivery is that of a man who’s
not sure whether you’re going to laugh
or be horrifi ed, and he lowballs jokes
like nobody’s business. You might not be
rolling in the aisles, but you’ll choke out
the laughter of horrifi ed recognition.
Now you can experience Birbiglia’s
life as a movie: Sleepwalk with Me, in
which the writer/director/actor plays Matt
Pandamiglio, a struggling comedian who is
also struggling in his longtime relationship
to Abby (Lauren Ambrose). Matt, not quite
as far along in his career as Birbiglia,
works at a bar where he also occasionally
performs. When friends stop by, he asks if
they watched, and they tell him no. They
already heard those jokes. In college.
Is this a sly reference to the fact that the
Birbiglia fans in the audience have already
heard the movie’s jokes? Maybe, and maybe
not. Sleepwalk, which is occasionally
interrupted by knowing commentary
from the Matt of a few years hence, takes
familiar material and twists it slightly,
bringing new themes into focus even as it
relies heavily on Birbiglia’s tales of screwy
gigs, stoic audiences and downright
dangerous sleepwalking episodes. The rest
of Matt’s life isn’t much more settled; his
sister’s recent engagement has thrown his
relationship into a new kind of turmoil.
His parents (played with cheek and sass
by James Rebhorn and Carol Kane) don’t
exactly model the relationship Matt hopes
to have someday. They exist in peculiar,
squirrely orbit with each other, perfectly
content to communicate in cheerful shouts.
He’s been with Abby for eight nice years,
since college, but when she starts pressing
for marriage, he basically panics.
The girlfriend who longs to get married
is an old cliché (and one I could do
without), but Birbiglia and his small stable
of cowriters make an effort to fl esh out the
stereotype, and to pin down spineless Matt,
whose inability to just tell Abby he isn’t
ready drives most of the confl ict. Ambrose,
who can speak volumes with one lifted
eyebrow, gives the best angry-girlfriend you
could ask for, and just as it’s clear Matt isn’t
ready for marriage, it’s apparent that Abby
is more interested in the idea than the man.
But it’s Matt’s story, and it’s Matt
we follow as his career picks up, his
sleepwalking worsens and he avoids
anything resembling responsibility. After
nights of failing with jokes about Cookie
Monster’s eating disorder, he stretches
out, cracking a joke about marriage, and
the laughter is instant. As Matt’s life
disintegrates, his jokes get better, trading
on the fear and angst he harbors about
relationships and the future. His coming-
of-age, delayed though it is, is a funny,
messy, recognizable exploration of the
way life and art blend and meld, one
feeding — or choking — the other. This
isn’t groundbreaking stuff, especially if
you’ve read the book, or seen the show, or
heard the “This American Life” segment.
But if you’re going to revisit a familiar
story, you could certainly do worse than
Sleepwalk with Me.
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