Awake
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery.
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation.As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
- Director
- Joby Harold
- Worldwide
- $14M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
16 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Awake returned 0.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $86M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $14M
- Release date
- Nov 28, 2007
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, Japanese
- Country
- United States of America
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