*ing: Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Bacon and Brad Pitt
With a cast like Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt and other talented guys ... there is little that can go wrong. Direction and Screenplay comes from Barry Levinson ... the same guy behind movies titled 'Sphere' and 'Bugsy'. I actually wanted to watch Bugsy and I got reading about Barry Levinson and I stumbled upon Sleepers and I'll be damned how on earth I missed such a powerful movie. Okay ... this is what it's all about. 4 juvenile kids in the rough neighbourhoods of New York find themselves in a Juvenile home for boys (read prison for juveniles) after one of their pranks goes horribly wrong. In comes Kevin Bacon who plays Sean Nokes, a real ruff tyrant warden who turns the boys from innocent playful young ones to something else ... fast forward to 13yrs the boys are now grown up and living separate lives until one day Kevin Bacon is murdered in cold blood. What follows next is the one of the best direction and screenplay I have seen in recent times. Positively a must watch, trust me these kinda movies don't happen often ... you miss one and your missed it forever. BTW, watch out for the music and scores ... very impressive I say :)
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117665/
Rottentomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1073595-sleepers/
pretty lengthy. but highly engrossing. good watch. :)
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