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Dominican Rep. Light Sleeper
- Original title
- Light Sleeper
- Year
- 1992
- Running time
- 103 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Willem Dafoe
Susan Sarandon
Dana Delany
David Clennon
Mary Beth Hurt
Victor Garber
Jane Adams
Paul Jabara- Robert Cicchini
Sam Rockwell
Rene Rivera- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Drugs
- Synopsis
- John LeTour (Dafoe) is a 40-year-old drug dealer whose drifting existence is thrown into crisis when his boss Ann (Sarandon) decides to retire. He encounters his ex-lover (Delany), by chance, which leads to his involvement in a murder case concerning a dead girl who is found in possession of cocaine indirectly linked to LeTour.
Schrader has described the film as a "man and his room" story like American Gigolo and his most famous screenplay, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, and in this case his character dealing with anxiety over his life and the external forces that threaten it. The insomniac LeTour spends his nights writing a journal, but whenever he comes to the end of a volume he simply throws the notebook away. Light Sleeper also shares with American Gigolo an ending patterned after Robert Bresson's Pickpocket in which the imprisoned hero is shown contemplating a new and hopefully better existence.-
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- Awards
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1992: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection1992: Independent Spirit Awards: Nom. for Best Screenplay and Cinematography1992: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Actress.1995: Sant Jordi Awards: Best International Actor.
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