After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard gives them a chance for revenge.


Books with substantial mentioning of Sleepers

Beth A. Fhaner, Editor, Devra M. Sladics, Christopher P. Scanlon, and Terry Schell, Contributing Editors
Magill's Cinema Annual 1997, 16th Edition. A Survey of the Films of 1996
Detroit; New York; Toronto; London, 1998

Reviews

Leslie Felperin, Sleepers, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 1 (January), 1997 pp. 45-46