Sleepers 1996

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a sleepers 1996 of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized.

All movies are in some way fiction, so what does it matter? The film tells the story of four friends from the west side of New York--Hell's Kitchen--and how they grow up in a tough but protective neighborhood, where the moral poles are Father Bobby Robert De Niro and King Benny Vittorio Gassman , the Mafia boss. When the kids are 13, they steal a hot dog wagon and it rolls down subway steps and crushes a man. They're sentenced to a reformatory where they are tortured and sexually assaulted by a sadistic guard named Nokes Kevin Bacon. Now I will have to reveal plot points. There is a flash-forward to the summer of Two of the boys, now about 28 and gangsters themselves, walk into a restaurant, see Nokes, and shoot him to death.

Sleepers 1996

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes. Joseph P. Reidy Sam Hoffman. Lorenzo Carcaterra. Pictures PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Crime Thriller Drama. Intense violence and sexual transgression Crime, drugs and gangsters Faith and religion Violent crime and drugs Graphic violence and brutal revenge Gripping, intense violent crime Brutal, violent prison drama Suspenseful crime thrillers Show All…. Have you ever asked yourself: "what would Stand By Me be like if the kids didn't just find a dead body, but were responsible for one? I imagine large parts of it are fictionalized, but it is a story of friendship and revenge, at first. But to me, Sleepers is a film about responsibility. The responsibility we owe to the people we care about, whether it's to our friends or in Robert Deniro's case, to our alter boys, or Brad Pitt's responsibility to the law he chose to…. The magic of the first act with the children was really lost during the second act with the adults.

I mean we buried this a long time ago.

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard give Read all After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard gives them a chance for revenge. 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?

All movies are in some way fiction, so what does it matter? The film tells the story of four friends from the west side of New York--Hell's Kitchen--and how they grow up in a tough but protective neighborhood, where the moral poles are Father Bobby Robert De Niro and King Benny Vittorio Gassman , the Mafia boss. When the kids are 13, they steal a hot dog wagon and it rolls down subway steps and crushes a man. They're sentenced to a reformatory where they are tortured and sexually assaulted by a sadistic guard named Nokes Kevin Bacon. Now I will have to reveal plot points. There is a flash-forward to the summer of Two of the boys, now about 28 and gangsters themselves, walk into a restaurant, see Nokes, and shoot him to death. They are brought to trial. But one of the original four, Shakes Jason Patric now works for a newspaper.

Sleepers 1996

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard give Read all After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard gives them a chance for revenge. 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? Sign In Sign In. New Customer?

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Play trailer Perfect Days Glenn Kenny. They are helped by Danny Snyder, an alcoholic lawyer who defends John and Tommy. Everything depends on the willingness of good Father Bobby to provide the defendants with an alibi. Film Credits. Humiliated, the guards move the boys to solitary confinement for weeks, where they are systematically beaten. The site's critics consensus reads: "Old friendships are awakened by the need for revenge, making Sleepers a haunting nightmare burdened by voiceover yet terrifically captured by Barry Levinson. Consider the priest. Ron Eldard John. However, Levinson's long-winded script has its flaws. South Korea Director Director Barry Levinson. The title is a slang term for juvenile delinquents who serve sentences longer than nine months. Minnie Driver Carol. ISSN

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Sign In Sign In. But it is the ever excellent Kevin Bacon who threatens to steal the show as the deeply disturbing Sean Nokes. Powered by JustWatch. London Film Critics Circle Awards. Louis DiGiaimo. There is its great beginning, an uneven middle and the courageous conclusion to the constructed plot, showing. Michael Ballhaus. Tim Galvin. Would the priest arrive at the same decision? It's definitely a bit long but it's very honest and compelling. Carcaterra's school attendance records show he couldn't have been in prison for as long as he said, and he couldn't have been in prison at the dates given for certain events in the book.