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Sleepers - No film to fall asleep
Sleepers is a film about friendship, honesty, justice and violence. Actors like Brad Pitt, Jason Patrick, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffmann and Kevin Bacon on their tops show how life can be destroyed by action in affect.
The story sets in Hell Kitchen, New Yorks violent quarter in the sixties. Four boys live a joyfull life until one hot summer day changes their lives completely. A man gets seriously hurt as the four guys play a prank. The teenagers are send to a Detention Center where they experience torture and sexual abuse comitted by the wards. Of course the boys suffer even as grown ups this physical and emotional injure and as two of them accidently meet one of their oppressors they take deadly revenge. As the two are send to trail the old stricks of friendship are newly bound and the other two, one of them a lawyer, try everthing to get the two frienda free. A cruel fight against the wounds of the past begins.
The movie is dominated by flashbacks which show the crimes against the boys at the Detention Center and give the movie sort of mysterious deep.
The story is told by Shakes, one of the boys, who also wrote the same named novel which is said to be based on real happenings.
All in all Sleepers is an emotional, exciting film which shows the cruel reality of law and the ways of late justice.

(Claudia Becker, Claudia Pries, Janina Huljus, Marscha Uredat)

Very happy
I was very happy with my purchase of this DVD and the timeliness of its delivery.

More of a distillation of one hundred children . . .
Based on fact . . . Well, if you'd ever been to one of those correctional units at that time, you would have seen some of the creeps who worked there. True, you might not find four guards of the same ilk who conspired to abuse the same four boys for the duration of their incarceration, but the abuse was there. As for the retribution being homophobic, the Amazon reviewer seems to think that pederasty is gender specific. To label the film as such is misleading. The strength of the film is compounded by the likes of Dustin Hoffman, Robert Deniro, and a handful of character actors who make their roles seem as natural and as effortless as a native of Hell's Kitchen stepping off of a curb. The younger actors, some of whom boast of "superstar" status, rightfully pale in the presence of the relentless characterization of their elders. Would that all the bad guys get the same comeuppance, would that down-and-out lawyers be given a last chance to shine, would that every neighborhood have a local priest who similarly embraced his parish. Forget the verisimilitude; suspend your disbelief, enjoy the movie.

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