Sleepers
(1996 )
Starring: Robert DeNiro, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, Billy Crudup, Minnie Driver
"This is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood. This is my story and that of the only three friends in my life that truely mattered. Two of them were killers who never made it past the age of 30. The other's a non-practicing attorney living with the pain of his past - too afraid to let it go, never confronting its horror. I'm the only one who can speak for them, and the children we were." - Lorenzo {opening lines}
Sleepers is a tragic tale of four best friends who grew up in Hell's Kitchen that fall prey to a boyhood mistake that changes the course of the rest of their lives. This sad narrative chronicles how a similar traumatic life experience can lead men in many different directions. We see the paths that each of the four boys takes, and the men it leaves them 13 years after the fact. Painful at times to watch, the true story {under discrimination as to whether the story based on the book by Lorenzo Carcaterra is actually fact or fiction} of boys in a crooked juvenile detention facility in the early 1960's is beautifully executed. All of the characters in this film are played by talented actors and actresses that portray a very realistic take on the script. Robert DeNiro as the father-figure priest is beyond brilliant. Young Brad Pitt and Billy Crudup make an impressionable debut in this often overlooked title. Also, no one can play a creepier and more revolting prison guard than Kevin Bacon. Bacon's role in this film forever changed my opinion of him as an actor. Overall, Sleepers is a movie that i highly recommend and subsequently own. Not made up of easily digestible subject matter, but something worth mulling over and chewing on, a thought provoking piece that will be in my collection for years to come.
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