If while you’re dreaming you fall and hit the ground, do you die? That is just one of many questions posed by Sublime, from Warner Home Video and Raw Feed, directed by Tony Krantz (whose credits include executive producer for TV’s 24, Felicity, and Sports Night and producer of the film Mulholland Drive) and written by Erik Jendresen.
On the surface, the plot centers around George Grieves (played by Thomas Cavanagh, who garnered fame in TV’s Ed and later Love Monkey), who has a beautiful wife, Jenny, (portrayed by Kathleen York of TV’s Desperate Housewives and The West Wing), two teenage children, and a gorgeous home that could easily grace the cover of Town & Country magazine.
It seems that George has been quite successful in the information technology industry, so successful, in fact, that Jenny quit her job to raise their kids and now seems a bit beside herself as empty nest syndrome nears. On George’s 40th birthday, a group of his friends gather together to celebrate with the Grieves, a group that includes George’s globe-trotting brother, Billy (David Clayton Rogers), who may or may not have been invited to the celebration.
After re-creating the Last Supper for a photograph (with George as Jesus and his wife as Judas), the gifts, some more unusual than others, are opened while talk turns to hospitals, malpractice, surgeries and iatrogenic illness (complications caused by medical treatment).
And did I forget to mention that all of this is on the eve before George’s post-birthday colonoscopy?
Before the procedure, there seems to be some name mix-up, as the doctor and nurse mispronounce George’s last name before being corrected more than once. Then, before George is whisked away to the procedure, his leg is scraped on the wheel chair. From there, the film takes a strange turn, as George wakes to find everything just a little off center.
The film flashes back to George’s birthday and all the events leading up to his admission to the hospital. But it is in the present that George is disoriented as days, then weeks, seem to slip by with the blink of an eye.
Article comments
1 - mike valentine
What are you talking about??? This movie SUCKED HARD. What was thrilling about it. It's another LOST HIGHWAY. AnOVERrated, SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW and BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING piece of SHIT!!!
2 - X
havent watched it but is sounds BBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORIGN
watch Awake, that'll do you good.
3 - Rich
The-Best-Horror-Movie.com writes, "Sublime has been vilified by most reviewers across the net but the ones who like it also seem to be the ones who get it."
So if you like Sublime, you are a "thinking man." And if you don't like it, you are...what? Stupid?
This film was done in 15 days on a small budget and it shows it. What urks me the most about Sublime is that it attempts to have something that most horror films do not bother with--a theme, and it fails at this attempt.
The Liberal White, appeasing and guilt ridden will be pleased with this film, but because the main character is not particularly mean or bad as a White man--in fact he is rather a good guy--his victimization is unwarranted and hardly believeable to most viewers. It is as though the filmmaker is some freshman college student spewing some new found truth in Feminism and Oppression Studies 101.
This is what happens to White men when they go into a coma and face their guilt....
This film was a waste of my time, and, if anything, I view White appeasement with an even greater disdain than I did before. I'm sure I would be repulsed by any "thinking man" who would like this trash. A horror film for Nancy Pelosi.
4 - Lulzforwulvs
^^^^
This was a good movie.
You must of been stupid to not like it and understand it.
It's not a horror, it is a THRILLER.
I'd give this a 4/5 stars.