Lorenzo “Shakes” Carcaterra, Tommy Marcano, Michael Sullivan, and John Reilly are childhood friends in Hell’s Kitchen in the mid-1960s. Father Robert “Bobby” Carillo, their parish priest, is a father figure to them. However, they start running small errands for a local gangster, King Benny. In the summer of 1967, they accidentally injure a man while robbing a hot dog vendor. Sentenced to the Wilkinson Home for Boys in Upstate New York, the boys are physically and sexually abused by guards Sean Nokes, Henry Addison, Ralph Ferguson, and Adam Styler. The abuse changes them and their friendship forever.Sleepers 1996 Movie Download.
During their stay at the facility, they participate in Wilkinson’s annual football game between the guards and inmates. Michael convinces Rizzo, a black inmate, to play as hard as they can to show the guards they can fight back. He agrees, and helps win the game. Humiliated, the guards inflict severe beatings on the boys, put them in solitary confinement for weeks, and beat Rizzo to death, telling his family he died of pneumonia.Sleepers 1996 Movie Download.
In the spring of 1968, shortly before Shakes’ release from Wilkinson, he suggests they publicly report the abuse. The others refuse, with Michael asserting that no one would believe them, or care. They then decide never to speak of the abuse — even after they are all released. The night before Shakes is released, Nokes and the other guards arrange a “farewell party” in which the four boys are brutally abused.In 1981, 13 years later, John and Tommy – now career criminals – unexpectedly encounter Nokes, now a private security guard, by chance in a Hell’s Kitchen pub. They confront Nokes, and he dismisses the abuse he put them through. John and Tommy shoot him dead in front of witnesses. Michael, who has become an assistant district attorney, gets himself assigned to the case; he secretly intends to botch the prosecution and expose what the guards did and Wilkinson’s role in the cover-up.