Sleepers 1996

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

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.

Sleepers 1996

Sleepers is a American legal crime drama film written, produced and directed by Barry Levinson , and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra 's book of the same name. The title is a slang term for juvenile delinquents who serve sentences longer than nine months. Father "Bobby" Carillo, their parish priest, a youth offender himself in the past, tries to teach them right from wrong. They still play pranks and start running small errands for local gangster King Benny. In summer , the four boys steal a hot-dog cart. They accidentally roll the cart down a set of subway stairs, severely injuring a man. They are all sentenced to serve time at a juvenile detention center called Wilkinson Home for Boys in Upstate New York ; Shakes is given six-to-twelve months, while the others are given to months. When at the facility, they participate in Wilkinson's annual football game between the guards and inmates. Michael convinces inmate Rizzo Robinson to help win the game. Humiliated, the guards move the boys to solitary confinement for weeks, where they are systematically beaten.

Play trailer When John and Tommy confront him, he dismisses the abuse he put them through, and they shoot him dead in front of witnesses, sleepers 1996. See the full list.

With its colorful characters, richly evoked settings, epic story of friendship, and a strong dose of good old-fashioned star power, Barry Levinson's "Sleepers" should be a potent fall performer. The film, based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's controversial semi-autobiography, is shrewdly packaged to appeal to a mass audience, though its revenge theme carries a questionable message. By David Stratton. Basically an ensemble piece, pic is notable for being the first to co-star two of the top actors of their generation, Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, who give solid performances as a fatherly priest and washed-up attorney, respectively. The other father figure who fascinates the quartet is King Benny Vittorio Gassman , an elderly restaurant proprietor and gang boss rumored to have been the killer of Mad Dog Coll. Shakes gets part-time summer work from the King, paying bribe money to crooked cops. These early scenes evoke carefree summer days in which the four friends fool around, play stupid pranks and generally enjoy life.

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Sleepers 1996

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In Venice Film Festival opening night. Reset poster Reset for item Save changes Save for item. YoungStar Awards. Sign In Sign In. Upgrade to remove ads. Entertainment Weekly. Madame Web Christy Lemire. In spring , shortly before Shakes's release from Wilkinson, he suggests the boys publicly report the abuse. Joseph P. But overall, Levinson says what he has to say. Latest blog posts. Film Credits.

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

That said, I must report this is a pretty good movie on more superficial levels. Salinas Dash Mihok as K. Austin Chronicle. When at the facility, they participate in Wilkinson's annual football game between the guards and inmates. In the beginning, it shows the childhood until the incident with good scenes. Best Original Dramatic Score. Due to the logistics of filming, Bacon did not meet de Niro or Dustin Hoffman until the film's premiere in Venice. Crime Drama Thriller. In a movie flowing with dialogue, he is not given a single word to explain his decision, possibly because the filmmakers know it cannot be explained--anything he says would expose the shallow morality. France Toggle limited content width. When called as a witness, Ferguson now a social worker admits that Nokes and the other guards systematically abused the boys. Sign In Sign In. Roger Ebert October 18, Ricky Stanicky Monica Castillo.