Charlize Theron portrays a monstrous mom in 'Sleepwalking'

Charlize Theron doesn't play a serial killer in the new William Maher-directed "Sleepwalking," but she does play a kind of monster - a woman who abandons her child, pathologically picks very wrong men and, as Theron puts it, "is in profound denial." While the character, Joleen, regrets nearly everything she's ever done and keeps doing the same things - the classic description of insanity - Theron says there's a lot more going on.

BY JOHN ANDERSON

March 16, 2008