Sleepers
Movie • 1996 • Crime
ReportTwo 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.
This movie contains 31 potentially triggering events.
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Unanswered Triggers
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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Zoexo
They get their revenge and justice.
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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Sid
Domestic violence is rife in Hells Kitchen and there are several scenes of it
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dudasouza
Heavily shown throughout the movie, very triggering scenes and dialogue.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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Sid
Tommy and John become alcohol and drug addicts
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Animal
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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dudasouza
Heavily shown throughout the movie, very triggering scenes and dialogue.
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Zoexo
Non graphic as the actors who depict the victims are children, but upsetting nonetheless.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Sid
Boys are sexually abused. At one point Shakes is sodomised with a baton
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Does someone break a bone?
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Sid
The boys are given severe beatings by the guards and one is killed
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Shakes’s face and eyes are horribly swollen after the guards beat him
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Children
Does a kid die?
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dudasouza
Death not shown, but mentioned throughout the movie.
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Death
Does someone die?
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Zoexo
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.
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Zoexo
He doesn't overdose on screen but we see his corpse.
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Family
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Sid
Shakes is forced to take off his necklace of the Virgin Mary
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Zoexo
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.
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Fear
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Gross
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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Anon883
Very big part of the film.
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Medical
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Sid
The home is similar to a mental institution
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Sid
When John is injured by his stepdad at the start and again after the boys are beaten for winning the football game
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Mental Health
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Sid
No but there is a lot of self-destructive behaviour
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Sid
John and Tommy kill a man due to their PTSD
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Sid
In “the hole” and also maybe in the confession booth if you are particularly sensitive
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Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Sid
All of the main characters
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Sid
There is a bright light whilst Shakes describes his last day at the home
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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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.
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Pregnancy
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Does an LGBT person die?
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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.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Zoexo
A kid calls a larger guy "fat man" repeatedly.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Sid
Rizzo is the first person in the film to die
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Is there hate speech?
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Zoexo
A white character tells a black character that he's "just an animal" to the villains to will him to agree to his plan.
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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kabigon
When the boys are spying on ice skaters changing. Upper body nudity.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Zoexo
The boys spy on half naked women and are later sexually abused by adults.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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Sid
Boys spying on naked girls and later horrific child sexual abuse
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Sexism
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Sid
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
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Violence
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Is there gun violence?
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Sid
Nokes is shot
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