Sleepers (film)

Sleepers
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBarry Levinson
Screenplay byBarry Levinson
Based onSleepers
by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMichael Ballhaus
Edited byStu Linder
Music byJohn Williams
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. (North America)
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment[1][2] (International)
Release date
  • October 18, 1996 (1996-10-18)
Running time
147 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$44 million[3]
Box office$165.6 million[4]

Sleepers is a 1996 American legal crime drama film written, produced and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 book of the same name. The film stars Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Vittorio Gassman, Brad Renfro, Ron Eldard, Jeffrey Donovan, Terry Kinney, Joe Perrino, Geoffrey Wigdor, Jonathan Tucker, Bruno Kirby and Billy Crudup. The title is a slang term for juvenile delinquents who serve sentences longer than nine months.[5]

Sleepers was theatrically released in the United States October 18, 1996, and was a box-office hit, grossing $165.6 million against a $44 million budget.

  1. ^ "Sleepers (35mm)". Australian Classification Board. 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Sleepers (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 21 October 1996. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Sleepers (1996) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference BoxOfficeMojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Streitfeld, David (26 July 1995). "Sleepers': A Rude Awakening?". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 29 July 2022.

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