Sleepers
Sleepers is a 1996 American legal crime drama film written, produced and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 book of the same name. The film stars Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Vittorio Gassman, Brad Renfro, Ron Eldard, Jeffrey Donovan, Terry Kinney, Joe Perrino, Geoffrey Wigdor, Jonathan Tucker, Bruno Kirby and Billy Crudup. The title is a slang term for juvenile delinquents who serve sentences longer than nine months.
Plot
Lorenzo "Shakes" Carcaterra, Tommy Marcano, Michael Sullivan, and John Reilly are childhood friends living in Hell's Kitchen in the 1960s. Father "Bobby" Carillo, their parish priest, tries to teach them right from wrong. The boys play pranks and start running small errands for local gangster King Benny.
Cast
- Aida Turturro
- Ben Hammer
- Billy Crudup
- Brad Pitt
- Brad Renfro
- Bruno Kirby
- Dash Mihok
- Dustin Hoffman
- Eugene Byrd
- Frank Medrano
- Geoffrey Wigdor
- James Pickens
- Jason Patric
- Jeffrey Donovan
- John Slattery
- Jonathan Tucker
- Joseph Perrino
- Kevin Bacon
- Minnie Driver
- Paul Herman
- Peter Appel
- Peter Gerety
- Peter McRobbie
- Robert De Niro
- Ron Eldard
- Terry Kinney
- Vittorio Gassman
- Wendell Pierce
- William Butler