Light Sleeper
A Manhattan drug dealer with a wealthy clientele, John LeTour reevaluates both his trade and his life after discovering that his supplier is planning on quitting the business. Meanwhile someone is killing women in apparently drug-related incidents.
1959, Michigan, USA
4 October 1946, New York City, New York, USA
16 March 1949, London, Ontario, Canada
30 December 1972, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
5 November 1968, Daly City, California, USA
1 April 1965, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
31 January 1965, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
16 February 1971, New York City, New York, USA
1977
22 July 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
13 March 1956, New York City, New York, USA
31 January 1948, Brooklyn, New York, USA
6 August 1941, Santiago, Cuba
22 July 1964, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
September 09, 2014
It`s a pretty good little movie, not so insignificantly for the performance of Willem Dafoe as the drug delivery man with a desire for a different life.
September 09, 2014
It's a failure perhaps, but an honorable failure. If it isn't saved by grace, it has many saving graces.
September 09, 2014
Crowd pleasing? No. Challenging? You bet.
September 09, 2014
While Dafoe has made a career of looking wasted, and does cynicism better than anyone around, he too is handicapped by his unsympathetic character and Schrader's clumsily unidiomatic script.
November 05, 2014
A resonant thriller.
September 09, 2014
Light Sleeper is emblematic of an era, and is recommended on that basis and on the excellent quality of it acting.
September 09, 2014
With his deliberate speech patterns and haunted, reptilian good looks, Dafoe is an almost nobly sad presence at the center of the film. There's something wonderfully calm about his performance, and it holds Light Sleeper together.
September 10, 2014
The movie is smart and sassy and alluring. It's like a gifted impressionist updating his material with wit and brio and respect.
September 09, 2014
Willem Dafoe's performance as LeTour is the glue that holds the film together, and it's a remarkable one.
September 09, 2014
For all of Schrader's capacity for spectacular self-laceration and spiritual agony, Light Sleeper finds him able for the first time to express a certain peacefulness, and the effect is delicate and discreet.
September 09, 2014
Too often, however, the movie is undone by mood-spoiling flaws, among them a gratingly bad rock song that keeps popping up.
September 09, 2014
Dafoe completely inhabits the character, appearing in virtually every scene and developing a fascinating psychological profile.
