"Before I Sleep" is one man's odyssey through Dublin city. It is a crowded hectic film, unmistakably Dublin, yet with one constant character - John Harte, a recently unemployed middle class man in a state of quiet anxiety.

Brendan Gleeson
John Harte

Vinnie McCabe
Barber
Paul Nolan
Man in Queue
Alan King
Dole Applicant

Cathy Belton
Girl at Old Office

Pat Laffan
Harte's Father

Don Wycherley
Porter
Cathy Mullan
Post Office Clerk
Eamonn Hunt
Golfer 1
Alan Archbold
Golfer 2

Martin Murphy
Golfer 3

Arthur Riordan
Golfer 4
Catherine Walsh
Bank Official 1
Felicity Stewart
Bank Official 2
Gerard Byrne
Paul Donegan