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Chasing Sleep is a 2000 PsychologicalThriller directed by Michael Walker and starring Creator/JeffDaniels and Creator/JulianMcMahon.

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Chasing Sleep is a 2000 PsychologicalThriller directed by Michael Walker and starring Creator/JeffDaniels Creator/JeffDaniels, Creator/JulianMcMahon, Creator/EmilyBergl, and Creator/JulianMcMahon.
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* MeaningfulName: Eve's animalistic lover George, who beats Ed up, has the last name "Simian."
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* AddledAddict: Ed, his psychiatrist, the lead detective and a beat officer all take the same pills, which help them cope with the stresses of their jobs. [[spoiler: Ed takes handfuls of them as his guilty conscience and hallucinations get worse.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: The nightmare begins when you open your eyes.-->-- Tagline of the film ]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: The nightmare begins when you open your eyes.
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-->-- Tagline of the film]]

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-->-- Tagline of the film]]film ]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: The nightmare begins when you open your eyes.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: The nightmare begins when you open your eyes.]]eyes.
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[[caption-width-right:350: The nightmare begins when you open your eyes.]]
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* NeverMyFault: [[Despite the horrific hallucinations, evidence pointing in his direction and that he’d killed off George, Saxon refuses to admit he killed his wife and unborn child]]

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* NeverMyFault: [[Despite [[spoiler: Despite the horrific hallucinations, evidence pointing in his direction and that he’d killed off George, Saxon refuses to admit he killed his wife and unborn child]]
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* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: The bathtub overflows with it [[hinting if not outright confirming that’s where Saxon killed his wife.]]

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* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: The bathtub overflows with it [[hinting [[spoiler: hinting if not outright confirming that’s where Saxon killed his wife.]]
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* TheGrotesque: The hallucination Saxon has of the unborn child in the bathtub is depicted as such, [[spoiler: a hint in his mind that his wife cheated on him and the child wasn’t his.]]


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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* NeverMyFault: [[Despite the horrific hallucinations, evidence pointing in his direction and that he’d killed off George, Saxon refuses to admit he killed his wife and unborn child]]
* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: The bathtub overflows with it [[hinting if not outright confirming that’s where Saxon killed his wife.]]

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* TeacherStudentRomance: Ed starts one with one of his students, Sadie after she comes to check on him.

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* PsychologicalTormentZone: The house itself represents the slow slippage of sanity.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Ed starts one with one of his students, Sadie after she comes to check on him.him.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness
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* CrazyJealousGuy: George is this towards Ed’s wife, openly being hostile towards Ed.

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* CrazyJealousGuy: George is this towards Ed’s wife, this. Throughout the movie he’s openly being hostile towards Ed.Ed over Ed’s wife.
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CrazyJealousGuy: George is this towards Ed’s wife, openly being hostile towards Ed.

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CrazyJealousGuy: *CrazyJealousGuy: George is this towards Ed’s wife, openly being hostile towards Ed.
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* MadnessMantra: [[Spoiler: It wasn’t me. It wasn’t me.]]

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* MadnessMantra: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: It wasn’t me. It wasn’t me.]]

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Chasing Sleep is a 2000 PsychologicalThriller directed by Michael Walker and starring Creator/JeffDaniels and Creator/JuilianMcMahon.

Professor Ed Saxon wakes up one morning to find his wife isn’t home. In between calling the police to find her and arguing next door neighbors, he begins suffering from insomnia. As the line blurs, clues appear that may explain her disappearance, and who’s responsible for it.

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Chasing Sleep is a 2000 PsychologicalThriller directed by Michael Walker and starring Creator/JeffDaniels and Creator/JuilianMcMahon.

Creator/JulianMcMahon.

Professor Ed Saxon wakes up one morning to find his wife isn’t home. In between calling the police to find her and arguing next door neighbors, he begins suffering from insomnia. As the line blurs, clues appear that may explain her disappearance, and who’s responsible for it.it.

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CrazyJealousGuy: George is this towards Ed’s wife, openly being hostile towards Ed.
*MadnessMantra: [[Spoiler: It wasn’t me. It wasn’t me.]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: Ed starts one with one of his students, Sadie after she comes to check on him.
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Chasing Sleep is a 2000 PsychologicalThriller directed by Michael Walker and starring Creator/JeffDaniels and Creator/JuilianMcMahon.

Professor Ed Saxon wakes up one morning to find his wife isn’t home. In between calling the police to find her and arguing next door neighbors, he begins suffering from insomnia. As the line blurs, clues appear that may explain her disappearance, and who’s responsible for it.

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