Sleepers
Movie • 1996 • Crime
ReportSynopsis
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Filter to only show:
Both
Yes
No
Your Triggers
Yes
0
No
8
Needs More Answers
Yes
0
No
2
Yes
0
No
2
Yes
0
No
2
Yes
0
No
1
Yes
1
No
1
Yes
0
No
2
Yes
0
No
2
Yes
0
No
2
Yes
0
No
2
Yes
0
No
2
Abandonment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
5
Abuse
Yes
13
No
0
2
Heavily shown throughout the movie, very triggering scenes and dialogue.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
12
No
0
0
Domestic violence is rife in Hells Kitchen and there are several scenes of it
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
6
No
0
Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
52 supporters
Yes
0
No
4
0
They get their revenge and justice.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
7
Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
36 supporters
Add comment
Yes
2
No
1
Yes
0
No
9
Addiction
Is there addiction?
33 supporters
Yes
10
No
0
1
Tommy and John become alcohol and drug addicts
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
9
No
0
Yes
9
No
0
Animal
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
0
No
5
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
0
No
10
0
Nothing happens to the rat.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
0
No
5
Yes
0
No
6
Assault
Yes
7
No
0
0
Non graphic as the actors who depict the victims are children, but upsetting nonetheless.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
16
No
0
3
Heavily shown throughout the movie, very triggering scenes and dialogue.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
8
No
0
Yes
7
No
0
Yes
2
No
1
Yes
0
No
6
Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
34 supporters
Add comment
Yes
5
No
1
Yes
6
No
0
Yes
6
No
0
Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
145 supporters
Yes
3
No
6
1
Shakes’s face and eyes are horribly swollen after the guards beat him
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Yes
10
No
0
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
119 supporters
Yes
8
No
0
0
Boys are sexually abused. At one point Shakes is sodomised with a baton
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
0
No
3
Is there a hanging?
66 supporters
Yes
3
No
4
0
Yes guy
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
5
Does someone break a bone?
42 supporters
Yes
9
No
0
1
The boys are given severe beatings by the guards and one is killed
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
6
Yes
4
No
1
Children
Yes
4
No
0
Does a kid die?
111 supporters
Yes
11
No
1
2
Death not shown, but mentioned throughout the movie.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Death
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
2
No
1
Does someone die?
26 supporters
Yes
6
No
0
0
2 people are shot to death on screen.
A teenage boys murder by being beaten to death is mentioned a few times but his death and corpse were not shown on screen.
1 character is shot and whilst we don't see the shooting, we see a still image of his corpse.
1 character dies from alcoholism and we see a still image of his corpse.
2 unnamed characters were also shot off screen and most likely died.
A teenage boys murder by being beaten to death is mentioned a few times but his death and corpse were not shown on screen.
1 character is shot and whilst we don't see the shooting, we see a still image of his corpse.
1 character dies from alcoholism and we see a still image of his corpse.
2 unnamed characters were also shot off screen and most likely died.
1 comment | Add comment
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
1 supporters
Yes
1
No
2
0
Not in the usual sense of the word. But a lawyer takes a case with the objective to lose it, in order for the truth to come out about what happened during his time in juvie.
1 comment | Add comment
Disability
Yes
0
No
3
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
27 supporters
Yes
5
No
1
0
He doesn't overdose on screen but we see his corpse.
1 comment | Add comment
Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
41 supporters
Yes
1
No
9
0
Shakes is forced to take off his necklace of the Virgin Mary
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
8
Is someone kidnapped?
19 supporters
Yes
2
No
6
0
Someone is indeed kidnapped. A group of men kidnap one of the villains (offscreen) and we see them take him to a field by an airport.
1 comment | Add comment
Fear
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
1
No
6
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
9
Gross
Yes
0
No
12
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
1
No
5
Yes
0
No
8
Large-scale Violence
Yes
0
No
5
Law Enforcement
Yes
0
No
5
Is there incarceration?
8 supporters
Yes
5
No
0
1
Very big part of the film.
1 comment | Add comment
LGBTQ+
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
3
Medical
Yes
0
No
9
Is there a hospital scene?
1 supporters
Yes
11
No
0
1
When John is injured by his stepdad at the start and again after the boys are beaten for winning the football game
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Is there a mental institution scene?
1 supporters
Yes
2
No
6
0
The home is similar to a mental institution
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
9
Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
127 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
9
Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
122 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
7
0
No but there is a lot of self-destructive behaviour
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
5
Is a mentally ill person violent?
46 supporters
Yes
4
No
2
0
John and Tommy kill a man due to their PTSD
1 comment | Add comment
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
39 supporters
Yes
8
No
0
1
All of the main characters
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
0
No
4
Is there a claustrophobic scene?
31 supporters
Yes
4
No
5
1
In “the hole” and also maybe in the confession booth if you are particularly sensitive
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
6
Yes
0
No
3
Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Noxious
Yes
2
No
4
Are there flashing lights or images?
62 supporters
Yes
4
No
2
0
There is a bright light whilst Shakes describes his last day at the home
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
5
Yes
3
No
0
Yes
3
No
0
Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
15 supporters
Yes
0
No
6
0
Only if you consider one of the main characters telling us the story of what happened to him and his friends "breaking the fourth wall". He talks about himself in the first person.
1 comment | Add comment
Pregnancy
Yes
0
No
5
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
0
No
7
Prejudice
Yes
1
No
6
Are there fat jokes?
64 supporters
Yes
3
No
6
0
A kid calls a larger guy "fat man" repeatedly.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
0
No
5
Yes
0
No
7
Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
Yes
2
No
7
0
People may think so because 2 of the child abusers die (they are men who abuse boys), but there's no indication they are gay/bisexual.
Sexual abuse and rape are about power, not attraction. Straight men can rape men or boys and feel no sexual attraction to them, etc, and men who are "attracted" to children are not inherently queer because it's a perversion, not a sexual orientation.
Sexual abuse and rape are about power, not attraction. Straight men can rape men or boys and feel no sexual attraction to them, etc, and men who are "attracted" to children are not inherently queer because it's a perversion, not a sexual orientation.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Is there hate speech?
40 supporters
Yes
4
No
4
0
A white character tells a black character that he's "just an animal" to the villains to will him to agree to his plan.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
7
Does the black guy die first?
28 supporters
Yes
9
No
2
1
Rizzo is the first person in the film to die
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Race
Yes
0
No
3
Relationships
Yes
1
No
3
Religious
Yes
3
No
0
Sex
Yes
0
No
4
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
101 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Is there sexual content?
84 supporters
Yes
10
No
1
0
Boys spying on naked girls and later horrific child sexual abuse
1 comment | Add comment
Are there nude scenes?
69 supporters
Yes
5
No
0
0
When the boys are spying on ice skaters changing. Upper body nudity.
1 comment | Add comment
Is someone sexually objectified?
55 supporters
Yes
4
No
0
0
The boys spy on half naked women and are later sexually abused by adults.
1 comment | Add comment
Sexism
Yes
4
No
1
Sickness
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
3
Social
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
3
Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
90 supporters
Yes
7
No
0
1
The boys win their case, but it is revealed at the end that John and Tommy both died shortly after the events of the film
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
6
Vehicular
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
0
No
6
Yes
0
No
7
Violence
Yes
8
No
0
Yes
0
No
6
Is there gun violence?
41 supporters
Yes
10
No
0
1
Nokes is shot
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Where to Watch
