Sleepers
The movie Sleepers was based on the book Sleepers.
Movie details for SleepersThe movie was released in 1996 and directed by Barry Levinson, who also directed The Natural (1984), Bugsy (1991), Disclosure (1994), Wag the Dog (1997) and Sphere (1998). Sleepers was produced by Warner Home Video. More information on the movie is available on Amazon.com and also IMDb. Actors on this movie include Kevin Bacon, Billy Crudup, Vittorio Gassman, Robert De Niro, Minnie Driver, Dustin Hoffman, Ron Eldard, Joseph Perrino, Jason Patric, Geoffrey Wigdor, Brad Pitt, Terry Kinney, Brad Renfro, Bruno Kirby, Frank Medrano, Jonathan Tucker, Peter Appel, Joe Attanasio, Gerry Becker and Casandra Brooks. |
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Book details for SleepersSleepers was written by Lorenzo Carcaterra. The book was published in 1995 by Ballantine Books. More information on the book is available on Amazon.com. |
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--The Washington Post Book World
"A GUT-WRENCHING PIECE OF WORK. . . Carcaterra's graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley."
--The Atlanta Journal & Constitution
"In his controversial memoir SLEEPERS, Carcaterra remembers harrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaborate vengeance he and his friends exacted against the guards. He tells it all in spare, stylish prose . . . [with] relentless momentum and sheer drama. . . . SLEEPERS is a thriller, to be sure, but it is equally a wistful hymn to another age."
--The Washington Post Book World
"A TERRIFYING ACCOUNT OF BRUTALITY AND RETRIBUTION, searing in its emotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, but biblical in its passion and scope."
--People
"SLEEPERS is so many things: a Dickensian portrait of coming of age in Hell's Kitchen, a terrifying and heartbreaking account of the brutalization of youth, a shocking--and disturbingly satisfying--climax worthy of the finest suspense novel. A brilliant, troubling, important book."
--Jonathan Kellerman
"COMPELLING."
--USA Today