Jack : Marc Palmieri	Eddie: Pasquale Gaeta
Kate: Nicol Zanzarella	Andy: Philip Galinsky
Judy: Judy Sabo Podinker	Tom: Jon Langione
Mel: Glenn Zarr	Sandy: Mary Ann Riel
Jonathan: R.G. Rader	Director: David Maquiling

30 Second Bottom Line: A 24-year-old security guard, with a case of arrested development, goes on a mission to find a stolen gun, taken during a scam on a crowded bus.

Story Line: Jack (Marc Palmieri) is your everyday guy next door who looks like he would not harm a fly. He still lives at home with his mother and sleeps in a bed that was too small for him ten years ago. The house is in an average, lower middle income suburban area, where the houses are well kept; boats are stored in driveways and shrubs on some homes have grown above the roof lines of the house. Very nice, but unsophisticated.

Jack is in limbo land, much like Steve in The Tao of Steve and Buck in Chuck and Buck. If the homecoming king in high school had been a geek, Jack would have won the election in a landslide.

While sitting on a crowded bus, on his way home from work, Jack spots an attractive young woman named Kate (Nicol Zanzarella). She asks him to give up his seat for an older woman, Judy (Judy Sabo Podinker), who is having trouble breathing the hot, humid summer air. As Jack stands next to Kate, he places his brown paper bag on the floor. In it is the gun that he inherited from his father, which he wears with his uniform while on duty. He's daydreaming about Kate and shortly after the bus stops, he realizes that his bag is gone.

Jack goes to his friend Andy (Philip Galinsky), who puts him in contact with his Uncle Eddie (Pasquale Gaeta). Supposedly because of Eddie's 19 years on the city council and still being well connected with local politicians and policemen, he will find out who is doing these types of scams. Eddie is a non-stop talker. Loudmouthed and an obnoxious man, who falls into the hard to take category; you wonder why others are always around him as his friends.

After making a few phone calls, Eddie and Jack have a list of suspects and go to Judy's house. While there, a style of odd ball comedy, social satire and the missing gun mystery, all occur at the same time. Jack and Eddie ask her father (Jack Mertz) when she will be home, and while they are waiting he launches into a discussion about his activities as a peeping tom.

When they do meet with Judy, Jack recognizes her right away but she pretends to have never seen him before. Although Judy is upset and angry at their intrusion into her house, she leaves them in her kitchen and goes on about her business of running errands for the day. Jack and Eddie stick around for awhile and begin to eat fruit and make themselves at home.

As Jack follows one clue after another, he meets other people who are as strange as Judy and her father. One of them is Kate. Jack now must decide if he is more interested in putting his hands on his stolen gun or all over Kate's body.

When Judy finally relents and speaks to Jack about following her, she refers to him coming to her gynecologist's office and out of nowhere observes that Jewish doctors are the best because they are honest.

Tell Me More About It: Unlike the film The Mexican in which there was also a search for a stolen gun, this one makes a lot more sense. Jack is self-motivated to find the gun and although this film has comedic elements, finding the gun is not the basis for a running joke.

The actors are good enough to provide almost a documentary feel to their characters. They are like people we know. Too Much Sleep has the rawness of a true indie film.

Although the story allegedly is about Jack and his search to find his gun, it's more about Eddie as the man that Jack can hope to be. And there's the rub…if Eddie is your role model, you're in trouble. He's one of those self-centered persons who is so focused on what they think, that when you ask them the time, they also tell you how to build a watch.

Stereotypes and morality drive each of the characters. Eddie is quick to conclude with just hearing that Jack had his gun stolen that it had to be "black guys." Later he tells an off color joke about an attractive women who lets a black man tie her up in bed to have sex. When she says to him "Do what you do best," he leaves her and commences to rob the house. These and other comments and observations are reminiscent of the satire in Bamboozled, but without the in your face style or panache of Spike Lee.

At the end of the film while Jack and Eddie are sitting on Eddie's front lawn, he proudly tells Jack how he plays around on his wife, yet he cares for her so much that he'll do anything to ensure that she does not learn he is an adulterer. He has a twisted view of love and respect, and many characteristics that do not speak well for his Italian ancestry.

Eddie can get on your nerves to the point of making you laugh as he can ask a question and provide the answer before the other person can inhale and exhale more than once. Presumably sharing his wisdom with Jack, Eddie tells what clearly are lies, which he now believes. He says that Peter Lawford mimicked his bets at the casino for hours; that he danced with Shirley McClaine and had wild sex with Doris Day!

With the group of goof balls that Jack meets in the search for his gun, he has got to be thinking of changing careers, friends and absolutely moving to a new town. With friends like these, Who needs enemies?

Not Rated (sex; nudity; language; drugs; violence)

George@reelmoviecritic.com

Marc Palmieri: Jack of Hearts	Pasquale Gaeta: I Was on Mars
Nicol Zanzarella: Zigzag	Philip Galinsky: Debut film
Judy Sabo Podinker: Debut film	Jon Langione: Demon Warrior
Glenn Zarr: Quiz Show	Mary Ann Riel: Debut Film
R.G. Rader: Debut Film	David Maquiling: Debut Film