Stay Awake Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

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Plot

An American indie debut drama of uncommon empathy that is very much of the moment: a fictionalized account of the filmmaker’s coming of age, as he struggles to get out from under the yoke of a prescription-drug-addicted mother in small-town Virginia. Life in the last, lame-duck months of high school, with a job at the Jolly Cow ice cream drive-in, would be cringe-inducing enough without a deeply depressed, self-destructive mother (Chrissy Metz). Wyatt Oleff and Fin Argus play teenage brothers stuck in a cycle of discovering their mom passed out, dragging her to the hospital, and encouraging rehab. Despair quickly turns to hope and then boomerangs back again.

Drama

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Stay Awake.

• C
  Chrissy Metz

  Breakthrough, Muppets Haunted Mansion

• W
  Wyatt Oleff

  Karate Kid, IT Chapter Two

• F
  Fin Argus

Crew Behind the Film

The Stay Awake behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

Director

Jamie Sisley

Screenwriters

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