Sleepers 1996

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 150 min

genre: crime

theme: coming-of-age

director: Barry Levinson

Score: 8 / 10

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 and a youth offender himself in the past, tries to teach them right from wrong. They still play pranks and start running small errands for local gangster King Benny.

Cast

More details

author	Barry Levinson
contentLocation	New York City
director	Barry Levinson
editor	Stu Linder
events	alcoholism child sexual abuse revenge
genre	crime drama
keywords	abduct abuse acquit acquittal airport alibi ambush american football assistant district attorney bribe career criminals working with the irish mob child molestation childhood friends district attorney drug dealer elderly man england english countryside football game hot dog in hell irish mob juvenile detention juvenile detention center kill learning the truth molest murder new york knicks older brother perjure perjury pneumonia poison police officer prosecution run script sexual abuse shoot social worker solitary confinement spring upstate new york westies
musicBy	John Williams
nomination	Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score
producer	Barry Levinson Steve Golin
productionCompany	Astoria Films Baltimore Pictures PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Propaganda Films
publisher	Australian Classification Board Warner Bros. Pictures
recordedAt	Connecticut Greenpoint New Jersey
theme	coming-of-age rape and revenge