Public Radio International (PRI)

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Just hours before their Sundance premiere Ira Glass and Mike Birbiglia talkd to the Hollywood Reporter about their movie ‘Sleepwalk with Me.’

The film was inspired by the This American Life episode called “Fear of Sleep.”

“Sleepwalk with Me” tells the true story of Birbiglia, in his twenties, full of anxiety about what to do with his girlfriend – ­ should they get married? should they break up? – and expressing that anxiety through a series of increasingly spectacular sleepwalking incidents.

Ira tells the Hollywood Reporter he hopes film “does more business than ‘Avatar,’ single-handedly creates jobs, helps brings the country out of recession.”