Eyes Upon Waking
After surviving another suicide attempt, a guarded woman spends an unwanted weekend in psychiatric observation and discovers fragile purpose in helping the patients around her.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Mild
- harrowing
- intimate
- melancholic
- reflective viewing
- mental health awareness programming
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Taren spends an extended weekend among patients and staff in a locked observation facility, gradually engaging with their personal struggles.
After surviving a second suicide attempt, Taren begins helping fellow patients despite remaining unable to confront her own despair.
Taren leaves the facility without feeling better, but the story preserves the possibility that she may eventually recover.
The plot is built around three days of psychiatric monitoring, analysis, interpersonal friction, and incremental attempts at connection.
Films like Eyes Upon Waking, and why
It's Kind of a Funny Story
intimate mental health drama centered on a suicidal protagonist and compassionate human connection
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
emotionally direct psychiatric-institution drama focused on patients, staff, and recovery
The Hours
quiet, character-driven drama about suicide, depression, and the possibility of hope
Movie Details
- Director
- Timothy Zwica
- Release Date
- 2022-05-13
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Rating
- 0.0 / 10
Cast
- Jennifer Scott
- Edie McClurg
- Joe Estevez
- Janet Ulrich Brooks
- Bradley Fowler
- Zoey Diaz
- Rhobye Wyatt
- Jeffrey Grover
- Eddie Huchro
- Becky Thyre
Common questions
- What is Eyes Upon Waking about?
- After surviving another suicide attempt, a guarded woman spends an unwanted weekend in psychiatric observation and discovers fragile purpose in helping the patients around her.
- What is Eyes Upon Waking like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Eyes Upon Waking as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Eyes Upon Waking violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Eyes Upon Waking as mild.
- Which films are like Eyes Upon Waking?
- Films with a similar feel include It's Kind of a Funny Story, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and The Hours.
- How long is Eyes Upon Waking?
- Eyes Upon Waking runs 111 minutes.
