Director: Barry Levinson
Genre: Drama/
Thriller/ Crime
Runtime: 147
minutes
Year: 1996
Starring: Kevin Bacon,
Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Billy Crudup, Ron Eldard, Robert De Niro, Minnie
Driver, Dustin Hoffman, Brad Renfro, Bruno Kirby, Joseph Perrino, Geoffrey
Wigdor
Description: 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 gives them a chance for revenge.
Review: With the director of “Rain Man”, an all-star cast and a heavy subject, “Sleepers”
looks like a successful film on paper. I don’t think it was successful, but it’s
definitely a film that should get more credit.
We meet four kids from ‘Hell’s
Kitchen’, a neighborhood in New York. One day the four boys decide to pull a prank,
but it goes horribly wrong and they end up in a youth prison. And life isn’t
easy for them, because they are abused, sexually, physically and mentally. After
they are released, the lose touch. Until two of the friends, John and Tommy,
run into one of the guards and kill him. It’s up to the two other friends,
Michael and Shakes, to keep them out of prison.
Even though the ending is a
bit flat and the characters don’t all get the depth they need, the overall film
is pretty strong and I believe it’s very much overlooked and underrated.
Rating: 3,5/
5
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