Sleepers [Region 2] | ![Sleepers [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4142SVPY6SL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, Billy Crudup
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $49.98
Rating:  123 reviews
Sales Rank: 223849
Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Unknown), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 147 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 044004780223
EAN: 0044004780223
ASIN: B00004R95E
Theatrical Release Date: October 18, 1996
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The first thing you need to know about Sleepers is that it's based on a novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra that was allegedly based on a true story. The movie repeats this bogus claim, which was attacked and determined by a wide majority to be misleading. Knowing this, Sleepers can be a problematic movie because it's too neat, too clean, too manipulative in terms of legal justice and dramatic impact to be truly convincing. And yet, with its stellar cast directed by Barry Levinson, the movie succeeds as gripping entertainment, and its tale of complex morality--despite a dubious emphasis on homophobic revenge--is sufficiently provocative. It's about four boys in New York's Hell's Kitchen district who are sent to reform school, where they must endure routine sexual assaults by the sadistic guards. Years after their release, the opportunity for revenge proves irresistible for two of the young men, who must then rely on the other pair of friends (Brad Pitt, Jason Patric), a loyal priest (Robert De Niro), and a shabby lawyer (Dustin Hoffman) to defend them in court. Despite the compelling ambiguities of the story, there's never any doubt about how we're supposed to feel, and the screenplay glosses over the story's most difficult moral dilemmas. And yet, Sleepers grabs your attention and pulls you into its intense story of friendship and the price of loyalty under extreme conditions. The movie's New York settings are vividly authentic, and Minnie Driver makes a strong impression as a long-time friend of the loyal group of guys. --Jeff Shannon
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Intense. May 27, 2009
ADRIENNE MILLER (TENNESSEE)
Sleepers is an unsettling drama featuring an all-star cast. The best performance in the film is Brad Pitt, this role proved he's more than a pretty face. Jason Patric is also terrific here, very under-rated actor. The film deals with abuse, and nothing graphic is shown but you are fully aware about did happen to these boys when they were teens. Great film from a great director, check it out!
 Great movie!!! January 11, 2009
Jean Alvira (Caguas, Puerto Rico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is a sad story, but wow it is a great movie with awesome actors!!!
Based on a True Story December 2, 2008
Jonathan (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sleepers made headlines even before its release when claims arose that writer Lorenzo Carcaterra had lied about the book being "Based on a True Story." This seems redundant given the BROAD nature of the phrase but never-the-less some cared more about the accuracy of the film than the message that it delivered.
An all-star cast of Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, Dustin Hoffman & Minnie Driver et al each provide a unique piece to the overall picture. De Niro's performance of Father Bobby is very convincing. He is the father figure to a lot of the potentially lost youth in Brooklyn.
The message of the movie is simple, these things happen to children because the system is a failure. The ending is a metaphor and it is clear...If justice is indeed blind, then those that are failed by the system can have their wrongs righted by beating the system. This is a great movie to say the least.
sleepres October 7, 2008
Janice Stephens
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
this is great movie it have great actor every body deserve thumb up
 bottom of the barrel September 12, 2008
Peg DeLorca (Santa Fe, NM)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like a particularly bad segment of the already-bad Dateline, this snoozefest proves that top talent and production values do not ANYTHING make. Scenes go on forever and the film is incredibly self conscious as to its time period. A mess.
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