Sleepers 1996

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized, sleepers 1996. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard give Read all After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent sleepers 1996 a detention center where they are brutalized.

All movies are in some way fiction, so what does it matter? The film tells the story of four friends from the west side of New York--Hell's Kitchen--and how they grow up in a tough but protective neighborhood, where the moral poles are Father Bobby Robert De Niro and King Benny Vittorio Gassman , the Mafia boss. When the kids are 13, they steal a hot dog wagon and it rolls down subway steps and crushes a man. They're sentenced to a reformatory where they are tortured and sexually assaulted by a sadistic guard named Nokes Kevin Bacon. Now I will have to reveal plot points. There is a flash-forward to the summer of Two of the boys, now about 28 and gangsters themselves, walk into a restaurant, see Nokes, and shoot him to death.

Sleepers 1996

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes. Joseph P. Reidy Sam Hoffman. Lorenzo Carcaterra. Pictures PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Crime Thriller Drama. Intense violence and sexual transgression Crime, drugs and gangsters Faith and religion Violent crime and drugs Graphic violence and brutal revenge Gripping, intense violent crime Brutal, violent prison drama Suspenseful crime thrillers Show All…. Have you ever asked yourself: "what would Stand By Me be like if the kids didn't just find a dead body, but were responsible for one? I imagine large parts of it are fictionalized, but it is a story of friendship and revenge, at first. But to me, Sleepers is a film about responsibility. The responsibility we owe to the people we care about, whether it's to our friends or in Robert Deniro's case, to our alter boys, or Brad Pitt's responsibility to the law he chose to….

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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 give Read all 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. Lorenzo : Mike, are you sure you wanna go this way? I mean we buried this a long time ago. Michael : You still sleep with the light on?

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 give Read all 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. Lorenzo : Mike, are you sure you wanna go this way? I mean we buried this a long time ago.

Sleepers 1996

Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Jump to Summaries 4 Synopsis 1 Edit. 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. They grew up in Hell's Kitchen, a far from perfect neighborhood, one filled as Shakes says with scams and shake downs, but one where the rules were known and easily understood by its residents. The one adult who they admired was Father Bobby Carelli, who understood them as kids more than most adults and more than he himself would like to admit.

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More to explore. ISSN Pictures PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Frightened and watched by guards during Father Bobby's visits, they buried this secret along with their childhood. This item only. Bruno Kirby Shakes' Father. Brad Pitt as Michael. Associated Press News. South Korea Sep 2, am PT. Minnie Driver [a]. Expand the sub menu Awards Circuit. Mike provides all the research to Danny to prove that one of the witnesses who testifies to have seen both John and Tommy walk out of the pub, was drunk at the time of the shooting.

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Dolby Digital DTS. The final scene is touching and celebrates the friendship between the boys, now adults full of trauma, but who enjoy a rare and final moment of happiness in a group, interspersed with the narration of the fate of each of the characters. Dustin Hoffman gives a fine, subtle, quavering performance as the shaky defense lawyer who asks his questions so quietly that one witness cannot quite believe what is happening to him. Mike and Shakes had provided all the evidence against Adam to a detective, who was Benny's cousin. This item only. Videos 2. Running time. Peter Giuliano. Powered by Nanocrowd. As they had previously worked together on Diner , Kevin Bacon was approached by Levinson to play the role of Nokes, but did not read the book until after he accepted the role. They served as altar boys at the church. On the surface, this is a story about justified revenge.