The Sleepers

Barry Levinson
Kevin Bacon, Billy Crudup, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Ron Eldard, Minnie Driver, Vittorio Gassman, Jason Patric, Dustin Hoffman
1996
United States
Completed
English
147 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asSleepers,is aUnited StatesProducerwomen sex,At1996Released in year
。The dialogue language isEnglish,Current Douban rating7.8(For reference only)。
On the streets of New York, four mischievous boys plan a prank to play on a hot dog vendor to pass the boring afternoon. However, their joke goes too far, resulting in them accidentally injuring a bystander, and they are sentenced to several months in a juvenile facility. Inside, every midnight, they are called out by the guards to be beaten and raped. After regaining their freedom, the four friends decide to bury this humiliation deep in their hearts. Years later, two of the friends, Michael (Brad Pitt) becomes an assistant district attorney, and Lorenzo (Jason Patric) becomes a journalist. However, the other two, John (Ron Eldard) and Tommy (Billy Crudup), cannot escape the shadows of the past and become gangsters. When John and Tommy encounter Sean (Kevin Bacon), the guard who raped them years ago, they do not hesitate to kill him. To help his friends, Michael devises a comprehensive plan: they hire a famous incompetent lawyer to defend them, while Michael serves as the prosecutor against Sean, trying to lose the case; Lorenzo, on the other hand, uses underhanded methods to expose Sean's despicable character…