Where is awake filmed

Clubs Newsletter Volunteer. Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube. About Send us a tip. Awake , a sci-fi Netflix thriller that has been filming scenes in Ontario this summer , is in Peterborough for a couple days shooting scenes around Little Lake. The movie stars Gina Rodriguez as an ex-soldier with a troubled past. Engage with us on social media on Twitter , Instagram and Faceboo k. Write to us at tips ptbocanada. Maintenance Is Beginning On Send tips to tips ptbocanada.

Jul 7. Jul 7, — Dec 1, Sidestepping the Power Struggle - Parent Education. And when it comes to Awake , you get that in spades. The movie is about a global event in which everyone's power is wiped out, along with their ability to sleep. It's up to a small group of survivors who are still in their right minds to figure out what happened and how to reverse it.

What some viewers are sure to wonder, however, is where Awake was filmed. Because there are shots of a big city, along with more rural areas and neighborhoods, it could have been filmed almost anywhere in the United States. However, it was actually shot outside of the U. To be more specific, its more precise locations include Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario. In August , the Instagram account for McMaster University in Hamilton shared photos from the set which included changes made to one of the college buildings for the purpose of the movie.

Awake began filming in the summer of and probably finished well before the pandemic hit the world hard in Trevor Hayes Robert as Robert. Mark Raso. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. With humankind unable to sleep and think clearly, growing increasingly irrational and violent after an unprecedented global phenomenon that wiped out all electronics, Jill, a former U. Army medic and widowed mother-of-two, finds herself struggling to keep her kids safe. Now, as scientists all over the world seem to fight a losing battle, the mysterious, worldwide plague of insomnia threatens to eradicate the entire human species, and undoubtedly, this is the end of the world as we know it.

However, what if Jill's ten-year-old daughter, Matilda, holds the key to a cure? Can sleep-deprived Jill protect her children when everyone has only a few days to live? Sleep Is Survival. Did you know Edit. Trivia In the library, one sees small white sticker with a red maple leaf, on the spines of some books. These stickers indicate that the books are written by Canadian authors. This was filmed in a branch of the Toronto Public Library. Goofs When Jill comes out of the lake to see Matilda in the company of two police officers, the daughter sits up and cough up water.

One officer says that Matilda "was out for about a minute," yet neither officer performs CPR, nor turns Matilda on her side to help her expel the water she has swallowed. Quotes Jill : Fixing this car is going to be so hard. Dodge : Prove it. Dodge : Okay. Soundtracks Wow. User reviews Review. Top review. Standard Netflix Production. Some people compare Awake with Bird Box S.

Bullock but whereas I was highly entertained and thrilled by the latter one my rate: 7 , I watched Awake rather drowned in an ocean of indifference. Awake simply lacks of thrill and action and the story told unfolds very slowly and there are just too many scenes and dialogues that are all cliche in. In this sense Awake reminds me a lot of Greenland , Gerard Butler , which also tells us a story that works more or less on auto-pilot: scenes after scenes we watched million times before.

In short: the script is like in so many movies these days the weakest link the ending is not only a cheap twist but a joke too , and whereas movies like Bird Box or The Road are top contributions to the genre of post-apocalyptic movies, Awake sails close on the edge of boredom. Tweetienator Jun 9, Details Edit. Release date June 9, United States. United States. Netflix Site.