Alistair Morgan's novel "Sleeper's Wake" won critical praise for its spare, artful prose, but there's little that's spare or artful about Barry Berk's film version, which treats the somewhat out-there ...

When James D.W. Peden started writing “Sleepers Wake,” he envisioned it as a comedy. “When I got into the story, it didn't want to write that way; the subject matter was too serious,” Peden said. The ...