Wide Awake (1998 film)

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Wide Awake
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	M. Night Shyamalan
Written by	M. Night Shyamalan
Produced by	Cathy Konrad Cary Woods
Starring	Denis Leary Dana Delany Robert Loggia Joseph Cross Timothy Reifsnyder Rosie O'Donnell
Cinematography	Adam Holender
Edited by	Andrew Mondshein
Music by	Edmund Choi
Production company	Woods Entertainment
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release date	March 20, 1998 (1998-03-20)
Running time	88 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6 million[1]
Box office	$282,175 [1]

Wide Awake is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and produced by Cathy Konrad and Cary Woods. Starring Denis Leary, Dana Delany, Joseph Cross, and Rosie O'Donnell, the film follows Cross as a ten-year-old boy who struggles with his grief and Christian faith after the recent loss of his grandfather.

Released by Miramax Films, it was Shyamalan's first release by a major studio after his independently-produced debut Praying with Anger in 1992, and was originally completed in 1995, although creative differences between Shyamalan and executive producer Harvey Weinstein led to significant delays. Being released before Shyamalan's widely-successful next film The Sixth Sense (1999), Wide Awake went mostly unnoticed upon released, receiving mixed reviews and becoming a box-office failure.