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Oct 15, 1996 · The Warner Bros. movie, Sleepers, which opens October 18, is a hoax. Starring Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt and Dustin Hoffman, the film is based on the Lorenzo Carcaterra book by that name. Sleepers purports to be a true story about four youths from Sacred Heart School, a Catholic elementary school in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen ...
Lorenzo "Shakes" Carcaterra (Jason Patric), Thomas "Tommy" Marcano (Billy Crudup), Michael Sullivan (Brad Pitt), and John Reilly (Ron Eldard) are four childhood friends who grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York City in the mid-1960s. Hell's kitchen was an immigrant neighborhood and life was tough. Domestic violence was a daily occurrence, but the ...
Oct 18, 1996 · When Nokes walks into John and Tommy's hangout, they kill him in cold blood and go on trial, defended by a drug-addicted lawyer (Dustin Hoffman). Michael and Shakes conspire with childhood friend Carol (Minnie Driver) and local priest Father Bobby (Robert DeNiro) to free their friends and get even with the surviving guards.
Apr 4, 1996 · An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty, violence and revenge, set against the unmistakable backdrop of New York City. Now a major film starring Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt, Robert de Niro and Kevin Bacon.
- Lorenzo Carcaterra
Jan 3, 1997 · Sleepers is a dark, emotional film that eschews real narrative depth for the star-studded potboiler approach. The film's brutality will upset some, and De Niro and Hoffman don't get much screen ...
Oct 23, 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.”
It was probably the best movie I've ever seen. Mixed emotions. It's a movie I feel that can't be redone right now. Actors and actresses are too powerful. I come from a time when the shining was screening I was 14. There is no other emotionally drawn movie since. The lost boys, silence of the lambs, a few good men, good fellas.
