Sleepers R
When friendship runs deeper than blood
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 3, 2009
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kevin Bacon, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Robert De Niro & Brad Pitt | |
Performer: | Bruno Kirby, Brad Renfro, Minnie Driver, Joe Perrino, Geoff Wigdor, Jonathan Tucker, Billy Crudup, Ron Eldard & Jeffrey Donovan | |
Directed by | Barry Levinson | |
Edited by | Stu Linder | |
Screenwriting by | Barry Levinson | |
Composition by | John Williams | |
Story by | Lorenzo Carcaterra | |
Produced by | Steve Golin & Barry Levinson | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Ballhaus |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Superbly played....Levinson shows a keen eye for the pangs of adolescence...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 6/10 --
...it's more than a bit disconcerting to see how the narrative makes serious wrongdoers sympathetic. Therefore, a qualified success.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 3/4 --
At times the images are agonizing to behold, men in their most desperate, hateful depths preying on children. The film, exceptional on many counts, ultimately is sad in a hopeless, haunting way.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Views the gray tones of good and evil and what lengths people are willing to go through to re-claim the dignity they lost as children.
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Cinema Crazed
Idealized? You bet. That's why the loss of this world must be avenged with the same broad strokes that you'd expect from the Count of Monte Cristo.
Rolling Stone
...Dustin Hoffman gives a fine, subtle, quavering performance....Kevin Bacon is a strong, effective villain...
Chicago Sun-Times
Levinson knows how to make a movie. He keeps it compelling throughout, and although it runs 2 1/2 hours, Sleepers offers no room for catnaps.
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Maclean's Magazine
Product Description:
Tommy, John, Michael, and Shakes are four young teenage punks growing up in the streets of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the mid-1960s. When these four friends pull a prank that that goes awry, they find themselves serving time at the Wilkinson School for Boys, where they are repeatedly and sadistically violated and tortured by four guards--the most menacing being Noles, portrayed by Kevin Bacon. Fifteen years later, the foursome is still dealing with the emotional repercussions of their abuse. Tommy (Billy Crudup) and John (Ron Eldard) have become common criminals, and when they spot Noles in a local watering hole they can't pass up the chance for revenge. It's up to Shakes (Jason Patric), a low-profile newspaper employee, and Michael (Brad Pitt), a lawyer with the district attorney's office, to save their friends while keeping the details of their tortured childhoods secret. Dustin Hoffman appears as Danny Snyder, and Robert De Niro stars as Father Bobby, the local neighborhood priest who is as comfortable on the streets or in a bar as he is behind the pulpit. Based on the allegedly true story by Lorenzo Carcaterra, the film is directed by Barry Levinson (DINER, RAIN MAN).
Keywords:
Law / Lawyers
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Prison / Prisoners
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Vengeance
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Children
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Rape
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Murder
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Disturbing
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Theatrical Release
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1960s
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- Sales Rank: 33,907
- UPC: 883929091607
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