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Sleepers
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1403
- IMDb #1017
- Google retired #397
- Rotten Tomatoes #1573
- Metacritic #2821
- Letterboxd #1082
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2347
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1102
- Metacritic Critics #3547
- Metacritic Audience #1416
- Criticker #1039
- Douban #867
- Kinopoisk #519
- AlloCiné #602
- Trakt #470
Every rating
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Lowest is Metacritic critics on 49, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 62, everyone else 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Four childhood friends from Hell's Kitchen are sent to a juvenile detention center after a prank goes horribly wrong. There, they endure months of brutal abuse from the guards. Thirteen years later, two of them encounter their chief tormentor and murder him. The other two, now a prosecutor and a journalist, devise an intricate plan to manipulate the legal system and protect their friends, forcing a reckoning with the traumatic past they all share.
Details
- Director
- Barry Levinson
- Writer
- Barry Levinson
- Studio
- Propaganda Films, Baltimore Pictures
- Released
- 18 October 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 147 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $44.0M
- Box office
- $165.6M
- Awards
- 1 win, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Academy Awards 1996 | Best Original Dramatic Score | John Williams | Nominee |
| London Film Critics Circle Awards 1996 | British Supporting Actress of the Year | Minnie Driver | Winner |
| Young Artist Awards 1996 | Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor | Joe Perrino | Nominee |
| Young Artist Awards 1996 | Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor | Geoffrey Wigdor | Nominee |
| YoungStar Awards 1996 | Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Drama Film | Joe Perrino | Nominee |
| YoungStar Awards 1996 | Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Drama Film | Brad Renfro | Nominee |
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×| Best Original Dramatic Score | John Williams | Nominee |
| British Supporting Actress of the Year | Minnie Driver | Winner |
| Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor | Joe Perrino | Nominee |
| Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor | Geoffrey Wigdor | Nominee |
| Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Drama Film | Joe Perrino | Nominee |
| Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Drama Film | Brad Renfro | Nominee |