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Apr 9, 2021 · Netflix has added the 1996 crime thriller Sleepers to its list of content. Is it actually based on a true story? Here we reveal all about the debate surrounding the controversial film
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Apr 9, 2021 · According to the author, it is a true story based on his childhood. But there is much debate about how much is fictitious due to lack of hard evidence. The film is about four men who take the law into their own hands after they are subjected to horrendous things, and portrays a system gone awry.
Oct 22, 1996 · ''Sleepers,'' the No. 1 film at the box office over the weekend, begins with a narrator's saying, ''This is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood.''
Nov 22, 2022 · Is Sleepers a true story? The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra, i.e. Shakes, the boy who will become a reporter as an adult. Sleepers is presented at the beginning as a true story, complete with confirmation of what happened to the four boys afterward.
Sleepers is a 1996 American legal crime drama film written, produced and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 book of the same name.
The writer claims it's a true story with names and places changed, but there has been much speculation as to whether that claim holds water. Nonetheless it is a great movie in my opinion. Share
