Sleepers
Summary: 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.
Runtime: 2 h 27 min
MPAA: R
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 44,000,000
Domestic: $ 53,315,285
International: $ 112,300,000
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