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Sleepers (1996)

  • Rated R
  • 2hr 27m
  • 49

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  • Official Trailer
  • Trailer 1

Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Barry Levinson

Producer:

Steve Golin

Writer:

Lorenzo Carcaterra

Release Date:

Oct 18, 1996

Runtime:

2hr 27m

Synopsis

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.

Cast

  • Kevin Bacon
  • Billy Crudup
  • Robert De Niro
  • Ron Eldard
  • Minnie Driver
  • Vittorio Gassman
  • Dustin Hoffman
  • Terry Kinney
  • Jason Patric
  • Brad Pitt

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Metacritic

49
metacritic
Based on 18 Critics
8.1

USER SCORE (151)

Universal acclaim based on 151 Reviews
30

Recalls those corny Warner Bros. movies about Dead End Kids.

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Metacritic review by Rita Kempley
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
10

Rent the devastating The Boys of St. Vincent to see how slick and hollow Sleepers is, how little it reveals about the real nature and effect of child abuse. [28 October 1996, p. 74]

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Metacritic review by David Ansen
David Ansen
Newsweek
80

At some low, what's-next level, Sleepers works like, well, gangbusters. [28 October 1996, p. 113]

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Richard Schickel
Time
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