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Light Sleeper
Light Sleeper
7.6
/10
5,774 Ratings

LIGHT SLEEPER

Directed by Paul Schrader
United States, 1992
Drama, Crime

Synopsis

John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even thought he’s trying to looking to move on from the business. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something more acute—and dangerous—when he re-encounters an old flame.

Synopsis

John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even thought he’s trying to looking to move on from the business. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something more acute—and dangerous—when he re-encounters an old flame.

Our take

Like Taxi Driver and American Gigolo before it, Paul Schrader’s Light Sleeper is a vivid portrait of how loneliness entwines with crime. This study of spiritual and existential angst, mired in the sleazy New York underworld of drug dealing, stars the brilliant Willem Dafoe and Susan Sarandon.