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  1. 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 film stars Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Vittorio Gassman, Brad Renfro, Ron Eldard, Jeffrey Donovan, Terry Kinney, Joe ...

  2. Oct 18, 1996 · Sleepers: Directed by Barry Levinson. With Kevin Bacon, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Ron Eldard. After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized.

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  3. 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 ...

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  5. Oct 18, 1996 · The opening words of Barry Levinson's “Sleepers” are, “This is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood.” That's careless writing; how, exactly, does it run deeper than blood, and how deep is blood? But after seeing the film the words I remembered were, “This is a true story.” I doubt it is anything of the kind, and Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel, which inspired the ...

  6. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › 1073595-sleepersSleepers | Rotten Tomatoes

    Sleepers relays the pain and bitterness of such victims. While there is a certain satisfaction to how the film ends, there is also the looming question of "did that really happen?" that troubles ...

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  7. Sleepers (1996) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu. Movies. ... film loader: second unit (as Scott Nederman)

  8. October 18, 1996 Sleepers By JANET MASLIN. hese days, Lorenzo Carcaterra's book "Sleepers" is known simply as "the controversial best seller." That's a shorthand way of saying that when this tidily plotted New York story was published as a nonfiction memoir last year, it sounded more Hollywood than Hell's Kitchen and prompted instant skepticism about the author's conveniently cinematic vision.

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