Light Sleeper
Leaving November 30
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1h 43m
Directed by Paul Schrader • 1992 • United States
Starring Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany
Willem Dafoe stars in this moody character study as John LeTour, a drug dealer who faces a midlife crisis now that his supplier (Susan Sarandon) wants a change of career. LeTour reencounters an old flame (Dana Delany) and glimpses the prospect of salvation, but soon he’s involved in a murder investigation that threatens to smother his future. Building on the themes of TAXI DRIVER and AMERICAN GIGOLO, LIGHT SLEEPER confirms Paul Schrader’s reputation as American cinema’s poet laureate of urban isolation.
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