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Light Sleeper

1992Movie1 h 43 minR

CrimeDrama
74
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb6.9Letterboxd3.7/5Metacritic707.4Rotten Tomatoes87%64%
74
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb6.9Letterboxd3.7/5Metacritic707.4Rotten Tomatoes87%64%

Summary

John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something more acute - and dangerous - when he re-encounters an old flame while a string of seemingly drug-related murders rocks the city.

Good for

  • Friends night
  • Background watch
  • Drop-in friendly

Skip it if

  • You need an uplifting mood
  • You want fast pacing

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  • Feels like real life.
  • Weighs on you.
  • Makes you care deeply.
  • Breaks your heart.
  • Puts you inside a crime.

Not for laughs, warmth or comfort.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

At a glance

Tropes

Creator-Driven SuccessorRare · in 3 titlesWriter/Director Paul Schrader wrote a little film called Taxi Driver sixteen years before Light Sleeper, which also starred an insomniac criminal roaming the seedy underbelly of New York at night and…Table Spacein 114 titlesUsed in the scene where Marianne and John are talking in a hospital cafeteria. They are shown reminiscing about their past on opposite sides of a small table.All 23 tropes

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