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Sleepers
Four teenage friends belonging to the Hills Kitchen made a big mistake and killed a man. After this happens, they are sent to the reform school to punish them. After arriving at the reform school, the guards were arrogant men who treated them brutally. After a long time at the reform school, John and Tommy grow up and become men who may return to a bad past, where they will retaliate after ten years in prison and are prosecuted by another member of their gang in circumstances that seem more exciting.
28 April 1949, New York City, New York, USA
25 December 1958, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
31 July 1963, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
10 September 1954, Lafayette, Indiana, USA
8 December 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1982, The Bronx, New York, USA
8 December 1924, Brooklyn, New York, USA
17 June 1966, Queens, New York, USA
8 August 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 August 1962, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
25 July 1982, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
4 June 1955, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
11 May 1968, Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA
20 May 1958, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
20 February 1965, Long Island, New York, USA
August 16, 2011
...it's more than a bit disconcerting to see how the narrative makes serious wrongdoers sympathetic. Therefore, a qualified success.
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
January 01, 2011
Powerful story of child abuse. Not for kids.
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 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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
February 09, 2006
Levinson has done nothing to sift the half-truths from the melodrama...
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.
