# Sleepers (1996)

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**Runtime**: 147 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Barry Levinson
**Written by**: Barry Levinson
**Starring**: Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Bruno Kirby, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt

> *Four friends have made a mistake that will change their lives forever.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Hell's Kitchen, summer, a baseball bat cracks. Four friends grow up, a guard preys, a lifetime of scars forms. Levinson lays bare the aftermath of shattered youth.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, gut-punch, raw

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 7.5/10 (249395 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 75% · Metacritic 49/100

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