Reedy continues to abuse Tara, until James snaps and beats his father to death with the shovel, exacting revenge for the years of abuse he and Joleen had previously suffered. James attempts to stand up to his father, but is quickly rebuked and threatened with a shovel. Reedy treats Tara with contempt, physically abusing her due to her inexperience with farming. Upon arriving at the Reedy homestead, which has now become a run-down cattle and horse farm, they are immediately put to work as unpaid labor by the head of the household, Mr. James and Tara agree to pose as father and daughter during the road trip, and begin to develop a familial bond. James drives Tara to his childhood home, which he and Joleen had fled from many years earlier. Longing to be reunited with Tara, James goes to visit her, and she tells him she's being bullied in the foster home and asks him to take her away. After missing too many days of work, he is fired, and ends up crashing in the basement of his married best friend, Randall, after Tara has been sent to a foster home. Shortly after moving into James' apartment, Joleen runs off with a truck driver, leaving Tara with her uncle, who works with a road-building crew.

Tara is forced to follow Joleen as she begs her younger brother, James, to take them in. Tara Reedy and her reckless mother Joleen have been evicted from the house where they were staying with Joleen's latest boyfriend, who was arrested for growing marijuana. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2008, and was given a limited release in theaters beginning on March 14, 2008. The film featured the song 'Come On, Come Out' by A Fine Frenzy. It was filmed on a 30-day shooting schedule, often under sub-zero conditions.

Shooting began in October 2006 in Moose Jaw and Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada under the working title Ferris Wheel. Sleepwalking was an original screenplay by Zac Stanford and was the directorial debut of William Maher. The two then depart on a road trip to his father's farm, a place he and his sister never intended to go back to. The girl is taken in by the state after he loses his job and apartment. It centers on the bonding of a 30-year-old man and his 12-year-old niece after she is abandoned by her mother. Sleepwalking is a 2008 American drama film starring Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Charlize Theron (who also produces the film), Woody Harrelson and Dennis Hopper.

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