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Don't Go to Sleep is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Lang released in USA on 10 december 1982 with Valerie Harper
Don't Go to Sleep (1982)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 10 december 1982
Length 1h33
Directed by Richard Lang
OriginUSA
Themes Ghost films
Rating64%
Don't Go To Sleep is a 1982 made-for-TV movie that was produced by Aaron Spelling and Douglas S. Cramer. The movie featured Dennis Weaver, Valerie Harper, Ruth Gordon, Robert Webber, and youngsters Kristin Cumming, Robin Ignico (fresh off of a supporting role in the film Annie) and Oliver Robins of Poltergeist fame. The film was shot at Warner Brothers in Los Angeles, California on soundstage 15.
Synopsis
The premise of the story is that a father, Phillip (played by Weaver) and mother, Laura (played by Harper) and their two children Kevin and Mary (played by Robins and Ignico, respectively) move out of Los Angeles (as seen in the opening credits) to a house up north in the countryside. Moving in with the family would be their grandmother (played by Gordon), whom nobody in the family other than Laura cared for very much. The family had just suffered the tragedy of losing their oldest daughter Jennifer (played by Cumming) and hope to regroup and start a new life without her.Actors
Valerie Harper
(Laura)
Dennis Weaver
(Phillip)
Ruth Gordon
(Bernice)
Oliver Robins
(Kevin)
Claudette Nevins
(Dr. Robin Samuel)
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