"The Life of a Hypnotist"
Forty Winks follows Fabio Berker, struggling Hypnotist in New York City, as he is blackmailed into being the world's first hypnotist hit man by a mysterious woman who finds out his degree is fake.
Social & External
The people behind it
Justin Marcel McManus
Fabio Berker
Susan Sarandon
Connie Montoya
Carmen Ejogo
Nina Sherman
Danny Burstein
Mr. Monroe
John Turturro
Milo
Leon Addison Brown
Wesley
Hart Bochner
The Narrator (voice)
Ben Shenkman
Daryl Camacho
Dan Finnerty
David Cromer
Kieth
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