Sleepers

1996
15
2h 27m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

244K

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A reporter and a District Attorney help childhood friends who killed a sadistic guard.A reporter and a District Attorney help childhood friends who killed a sadistic guard.A reporter and a District Attorney help childhood friends who killed a sadistic guard.

Director
- Barry Levinson
Writers
- Lorenzo Carcaterra
- Barry Levinson
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

244K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,143

422

Director
- Barry Levinson
Writers
- Lorenzo Carcaterra
- Barry Levinson
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 5 nominations total

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8/10

Sleepers

Sleepers is one of theses films which disturbs, provokes and affects the audience deeply. It leaves some wounds, injuries, traces. This mixture of "GoodFellas" and "Once Upon a Time in America" directed brightly and brilliantly mingles a lot of subjects, issues and themes. While throughout the movie, intimacy, religion, thought seem to be the ways for enduring the violence, hoping and believing, trust, relationships, friendship seem to be the ways for saving each other. A great film.

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Trivia
Despite the tense relationship on-screen, Kevin Bacon recalled it was an absolute blast working with the boys and other extras who played inmates, to the point where it was difficult to joke around between takes and then return to a his abusively strict character.

Goofs
The narrator reports the summer of 1968 as "the Summer of Love." This was actually a hippie-reference nickname given to the summer of 1967.

Quotes
Lorenzo: Mike, are you sure you wanna go this way? I mean we buried this a long time ago.
Michael: You still sleep with the light on?

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Chamber/The Ghost and the Darkness/The Long Kiss Goodnight/Looking for Richard/Freeway (1996)

Soundtracks
Walk Like A Man
Performed by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
Written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio (as Robert Gaudio)
Courtesy of The Four Seasons Partnership
By arrangement with Warner Special Products