All-Time Sales Rank: 2171
| Overall Rating:    3.63 out of 5, including 2 reviews Add your comments on this Title. |
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Disgraced Swedish detective Jonas Engstrom (Stellan Skarsgard) travels to Northern Norway to solve a brutal murder in Insomnia. Unable to sleep through the night of the midnight sun, Engstrom quickly loses his grip on the case and his mind. Erik Skjoldbjaerg's debut feature is a deft amalgam of psychological thriller, morality play, and police procedural. Criterion presents the DVD premiere of Insomnia in a new widescreen transfer.
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Features:
| | Norwegian Trailer And TV Spot | Video:
| | Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) | | Audio: (more info) | SWEDISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
NORWEGIAN: Dolby Digital Stereo
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| | English
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| Studio: Criterion Production Year: 1997 Release Date: 7/27/1999
Length: 97 mins Rating: NR Chapters: 21
| Packaging: Keep Case Number of Discs: 1 Disc: SS-DL Item Code: INS030 UPC Code: 037429138229
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Overall Rating:    3.63 out of 5, including 2 reviews Add your comments on this Title. |
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Customer Review
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EYES WIDE OPEN - 4 out of 5 (10/9/1999)
Let's imagine the same movie located in the Arizona desert instead of the arctic frontier and with a mexican-american cop hero instead of the swedish inspector lost in the utmost northern part of Norway. You've got it - Good ! Don't you think that the plot of INSOMNIA looks more familiar now - One could even say that hundreds of movies have already treated the subject of the detective breaking the law because of drugs abuse, heavy drinking or hot sun. So, don't judge INSOMNIA by its plot only, y
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