Too Much Sleep

2001 Comedy

Writer-director David Maquiling made his feature film debut and co-produced this independent latter-day American screwball comedy. Jack Crawford (Marc Palmieri) is a man in his 20s who is still living at home in the suburbs with his domineering mother. He works as a security guard at night and battles boredom by day. While commuting to his job on a bus one day, he meets an attractive young woman named Kate (Nicol Zanzarella). She is mesmerizing to him and they talk and ride awhile. After she gets off the bus, he discovers that his gun is missing. He sets off on a search for the missing weapon and finds out that Kate isn't what she seemed to be.

Director: David Maquiling

Starring: Marc Palmieri, Nicol Zanzarella, Pasquale Gaeta, Philip Galinsky, Judy Sabo Podinker

Reviews

  • Maquiling has built and sustained a mood of lovely comic aplomb. Like one of its hero's daydreams, the film evaporates on contact and leaves a serene glow.

    - Entertainment Weekly

    20 January 2013

  • The movie's a gas. Very funny, to a rather dark degree.

    Desson Thomson - The Washington Post

    20 January 2013

  • It's nothing less than a spiritual journey set in New Jersey.

    Stephen Hunter - The Washington Post

    20 January 2013

  • Rich and droll, and yet slight--a film of modest virtues, content to be small, achieving what it intends.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    20 January 2013

  • The movie is as modestly unpretentious as David O. Russell's "Spanking the Monkey."

    Wesley Morris - The San Francisco Chronicle

    20 January 2013

Awards

  • David Maquiling

    Independent Spirit Awards (2002)