Sleepers
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Barry Levinson
Kevin Bacon
Robert De Niro
Dustin Hoffman
Jason Patric
Brad Pitt
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Church of the Holy Angels and its grammar school were the center of Hell's Kitchen in the 1960s--a place of refuge for many neighborhood kids from troubled homes. Father Bobby had his favorites--among them were Lorenzo and his pals, Michael, John, and Tommy. Because their blue-collar, hardworking parents were more often fighting than not, the four boys formed a kind of family of their own. Then, one boring summer day, a street prank gone dangerously awry resulted in the quartet being sent to the Wilkinson Home for Boys in upstate New York where they were tortured, abused and raped under the leadership of a sadistic guard named Sean Nokes. A decade and a half later, nothing can erase their painful memories, but the lessons of Hell's Kitchen allow them to even the score of the terrible hand that Fate had dealt them. In their shocking retaliation, they are daringly aided by Father Bobby and an aging, shadowy mob figure, both of whom have known the four boys since their childhoods.
Director
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Barry Levinson
Cast
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Kevin Bacon
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Robert De Niro
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Dustin Hoffman
Jason Patric
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Brad Pitt
Billy Crudup
Minnie Driver
Mary B Mccann
Monica Polito
Terry Kinney
Casandra Brooks
George Georgiadis
Frank Medrano
Pat Mcnamara
Gina Menza
Ben Hammer
Lennie Loftin
Larry Romano
Mick O'rourke
Patrick Tull
Peter Mahoney
Joe Urla
Ron Eldard
Eugene Byrd
Daniel Mastrogiorgio
Rose Ciola
Don Hewitt
Michael P Moran
Peter Rinni
Wendell Pierce
Marco Greco
Gayle Scott
Drew Eliot
John Slattery
James Pickens Jr.
Peter Appel
Brad Renfro
Angela Rago
Jonathan Tucker
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Vittorio Gassman
Pasquale Cajano
William Butler
Peter Mcrobbie
Carmine Parisi
David Weinman
Mary Testa
Tom Signorelli
Ruth Maleczech
Bruno Kirby
Chuck Lewis Low
Henry Stram
Sean Patrick Reilly
Dash Mihok
Janet Ferguson
Jeffrey Donovan
Salvatore Piro
Juan Maria
Jenique Torres
Saverio Guerra
Rocco Musacchia
Frank Inzerillo
Aida Turturro
Ralph Tabakin
Joe Perrino
Robert Castle
Reuben Larry Elliott
Paul Herman
Geoffrey Wigdor
John Dibenedetto
Conrad Meertins
Joe Attanasio
Gerry Becker
Crew
Daniel J Adkins
Lori Arnold
Henry Avelin
Joseph Badalucco
Joseph Badalucco
Toni Baffo
Scott Balcerek
Florian Ballhaus
Michael Ballhaus
James Bartolomeo
Richard Beggs
Irving Berlin
Mark Bero
Jill Bianchini
Jean Black
John Bonnin
Leslie T Bono
David Boulton
Henry Boyle
Noel Brevick
Nicholas Brodszky
Brian Brown
Lindakay Brown
Lashan A Browning
Cristina Buckley
Nicole Bugna-doyle
Wilfred Caban
Sammy Cahn
Lorraine Calvert
Carmen Campolo
John Canterella
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Cynthia Doyle Carriere
Verne Caruso
Robin Chambers
Claudette Charles
Eric Chauvin
Barbara Clark
Ed Cobb
Alex Cohn
Bob Colletti
Edward Coonan
Vicky Cosentino
Bob Crewe
Cristin Cricco
Blair Daily
Blair Daily
Mark Daily
Kathy Dalton
Spencer Davis
Doris Day
Sandy De Crescent
Jerry Deblau
Richard Dehr
Greg Dempsey
Lou Digiaimo
Deirdre Cook Donohue
Timothy Donohue
Danny Downey
Tomm Doyle
Lamont Dozier
Dean Drabin
Ronald Dennis Drogan
Lisa Drostova
William Durnin
Tony Eckert
Scott Farley
William Farley
John Featherstone
James C. Feng
Ralph Ferrara
Dan Finn
Michael Finnerty
Michael Finnerty
Ken Fischer
Mike Fish
Maurice Fitzgerald
Brian Fitzsimons
Kevin Flynn
John R Ford
Suzanne Fox
Dennis Freeborn
Kate O Fujimoto
Carl Fullerton
Tim Gallin
Timothy Galvin
Dennis Gamiello
George Garrett
William K. Gaskins
Robert Gaudio
Terry Gilkyson
Peter Girolami
Peter Giuliano
Ben Gold
Brett Goldstein
Steve Golin
Joseph A Gorrin
Susan Goulder
Electra Gray
Marco Greco
Dennis Green
Gloria Gresham
Robert Griffon
Gary Grill
J R Grubbs
Mara Hade
Brian Hamill
Ronald Haney
Rusty Hanson
Marlus C Harding
Daniel J Harvey
Joel Hatch
Stephen Hauser
Brent Haywood
Amy Herman
Ilona Herman
Don J Hewitt
Jery Hewitt
Lora Hirschberg
Sam Hoffman
Ellen Hofstadter-shapiro
Brian Holland
Edward Holland
Joel Holland
Tim Holland
Larrry Huston
Richard Hymns
Kalina Ivanov
Richard C Johnson
John R Johnston
Mark Kamine
Danielle Katz
Joan Kauffman
Buddy Kaye
Kevin Keefe
Kristopher Keefe
Paul Kingham
Steve Kirshoff
Glenn Kiser
Nancy Kolomitz
Fred Kraemer
Mary Ann Lamb
Wallace G Lane
Adam Leichtman
Donovan Leitch
Donovan Leitch
Christine Leiter
Anthony S Lenzo
Henry P Leto
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson
Stu Linder
Joseph Lombardi
Love
Michael Love
Edward W Lowry
John B Lowry
Martin Lowry
Nicholas Lundy
John F Lyons
Bryan Maclean
Alan Mader
Kevin V Madigan
Tod A Maitland
Bobby Mancuso
David Brian Martin
Dean Martin
Allan Mason
Charles E Mccarry
Larry Mcconkey
James Mccullagh
Mary Mccusker
Charles Mcdonald
John B Mcdonnell
Lucas Mcdonough
Kevin Mckenna
Susan Mclean
Mark Melendez
Frank 'pepe' Merel
Susan Mieras
Frank Miller
Jamie Miller
Kiersten Pilar Miller
Louis Miller
Tim Monich
Amanda K Montgomery
John Murchison
Shawn Murphy
Rocco Musacchia
Kenneth D Nelson
John Neufeld
Kenny Nolan
Peter Norman
Tim Norman
Christine Norton
Heather Norton
D'arcy O'connor
T. J. O'mara
David Orr
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Score (Dramatic Picture)
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States August 28, 1996
Released in United States Fall October 18, 1996
Released in United States on Video April 1, 1997
Shown at Venice Film Festival (Opening Night) August 28, 1996 (out of competition).
Author Lorenzo Carcaterra's book is autobiographical; he is one of the four young men depicted in the story.
Began shooting August 29, 1995.
Completed shooting November 30, 1995.
"Sleepers" was published by Ballantine Books July 6, 1995.
Released in United States on Video April 1, 1997
Released in United States August 28, 1996 (Shown at Venice Film Festival (Opening Night) August 28, 1996 (out of competition).)
Released in United States Fall October 18, 1996