Unmade Beds appears to be a documentary, but in fact it's a scripted feature that extrapolates from its characters' real-life personalities. Barker does capture the incandescent mystery of New York's nocturnal cityscape, and the jazzy, New Age soundtrack accentuates the film's dark mood, but for a staged act, Unmade Beds revels too much in the banality of its subjects squandering drop-in-the-bucket opportunities for rife humor and sardonic wit.