Based on "the controversial best seller" of the same name, Sleepers is the story of four friends who are sent to a "home for boys" after their involvement in a prank gone wrong. While at this reformatory they are brutally beaten and sodomized by a group of guards, thirteen years later they would have there revenge. The cast is excellent, Robert De Niro (playing a good priest), Dustin Hoffman (as a lawyer whose seen better days), Kevin Bacon (as the lead sadistic guard), Brad Pitt & Billy Crudup (as two of the kids grown up) and Minnie Driver (as the love interest). The actors who play the lead characters as young boys are also very good.
Film has good pace, interesting characters and settings, as well as blended genera's, its like The Shawshank Redemption as coming of age story (uggh). The film doesn't hold its punches when it comes to some hard reality's, such as the long term psychological effects of sex abuse, and the lack of opportunity's afforded to good kids in "Hells Kitchen" all though many of leads are hoods themselves, even killers, we are essentially suppose to forgive them because of there bad childhoods, this actually works better then I hope it does in real life. A good solid movie, especially strong in its first half, but still just a little shy of being a home run. Grade: B+
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I like this movie because of the fact that it makes such a real portrayal of the effects of the abuse. While I think this movie presents an extreme case it is still interesting to think about.
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