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Sleepers
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After a prank goes disastrously wrong, four teenage friends from Hell's Kitchen end up being sent to reform school after almost killing a man. There, they are brutalized; and over 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge.
After a prank goes disastrously wrong, four teenage friends from Hell's Kitchen end up being sent to reform school after almost killing a man. There, they are brutalized; and over 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge.
Actors:
Peter Gerety,
Peter McRobbie,
Monica Polito,
Michael J. Burg,
Jonathan Tucker,
Gerry Becker,
Peter Appel
Peter Gerety
17 May 1940, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Peter McRobbie
31 January 1943, Hawick, Borders, Scotland, UK
Monica Polito
1982, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Michael J. Burg
28 December 1968, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Jonathan Tucker
31 May 1982, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gerry Becker
11 April 1951, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Peter Appel
19 October 1959, New York City, New York, USA
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United States
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Peter McRobbie
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Monica Polito
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Michael J. Burg
28 December 1968, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Jonathan Tucker
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Gerry Becker
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Common Sense Media
January 01, 2011
Powerful story of child abuse. Not for kids.
November 13, 2013
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.
February 09, 2006
Levinson has done nothing to sift the half-truths from the melodrama...
August 23, 2009
Boasting a glorious multi-generational cast (De Niro, Hoffman, Brad Pitt, Jason Patric), Levinson's tale of sexual abuse and revenge is just decent, lacking dramatic energy and relying too much on voice-over narration and conventional courtroom procedures
June 18, 2002
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.
April 27, 2015
It plays out as a stylish and lurid amoral vigilante thriller, one that never earns the viewer's confidence that this is the real thing.
August 14, 2009
It is all legally preposterous. But Levinson is a slick craftsman, his actors are insinuatingly real, and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus casts a disarmingly believable light on these proceedings.
August 16, 2011
...it's more than a bit disconcerting to see how the narrative makes serious wrongdoers sympathetic. Therefore, a qualified success.
Rolling Stone
May 12, 2001
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.
August 02, 2011
Despite it all, just try to take your eyes off this movie: skillfully crafted by Levinson, Sleepers is eminently watchable, deeply emotional, and populated with top acting talent. [Blu-ray]
Variety
June 24, 2008
If audiences aren't bothered by this disturbing subtext, there's a lot to enjoy in this impeccably structured, handsomely produced saga.
February 14, 2001
In craft terms alone, Sleepers is considerably better than average filmmaking, but it's difficult to take this film as seriously as it takes itself.