Light Sleeper

Starring: Susan Sarandon, Willem Dafoe Director: Paul Schrader Original UK Premiere: 1991 Dvd Release: 17th March, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Light Sleeper is a 1992 film written & directed by Paul Schrader. It stars Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, David Clennon & Dana Delany. Schraders wife Mary Beth Hurt appears as a fortune teller. Dafoe plays John LeTour, a 40-year-old drug dealer whose drifting existence is thrown into crisis by his boss Ann s decision to retire & his own encounter with his ex-lover, which leads to his involvement in a murder case. Schrader has described the film as a man & his room story like American Gigolo & his most famous screenplay, Martin Scorsese s Taxi Driver. The insomniac LeTour spends his nights writing a journal, but whenever he comes to the end of a volume he simply throws the notebook away. Light Sleeper also shares with American Gigolo & Schraders Patty Hearst an ending patterned after that of Robert Bresson s Pickpocket in which the imprisoned hero/heroine is shown beginning to contemplate a new & hopefully wider existence. Schrader considers this to be his best non-Scorsese script. Light Sleeper at The Internet Movie Database.

Sad movie, ending on a hopeful note. The characters get under your skin even if they do nothing to go there. It is like a familly drama with a drug dealer as a main hero. Willem plays a lost person, attached to the drug lord who is his best friend & played by Susan Sarandon. And then somebody he knew way back enters his life, & changes it. And then disappears & changes it again. There is a plot here, but everything else is what matters. The actors are brilliant. I love this movie.

Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award winning American actress. Born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York, New York, she attended The Catholic University of America in 1964, where she met & married fellow student Chris Sarandon, whom she would divorce fifteen years later while still retaining her married name as her stage name. In 1970 she went to a cattle call for the film Joe with Chris and, although he did not get a part, Susan received the major role of the disaffected teen who disappears into the seedy underworld. She did not follow up on the success of that movie, taking roles in lesser films such as Lovin Molly ; it was five more years before she appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult classic. That same year, she also played the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. She was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for Atlantic City, but was still not a household name until the 1988 film Bull Durham. It was while filming that movie that she met actor Tim Robbins, with whom she established a relationship that continues to this day. Posters Of Alfie

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Willem Dafoe is a versatile American actor. He is a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. Born William Dafoe Jr. in Appleton, Wisconsin, the seventh of eight children, he acquired the nickname Willem in childhood. He studied drama at the University of Wisconsin, but left before graduation in order to join the newly formed avant-garde group Theatre X After touring with Theatre X for four years in the United States & Europe, he moved to New York City & joined the Performance Group, where he met director Elizabeth Lecompte. Lecompte & Dafoe left the Performance Group together & became both collaborators & life partners; they are not married, but have a son. Dafoes film career began in 1981, when he was cast in Heavens Gate, but his role was removed from the film during editing. A year later he starred as the leader of a motorcycle gang in The Loveless, but his first breakthrough film role was as Sergeant Elias in Platoon. Posters Of Auto Focus

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Paul Schrader is a screenwriter & film director, renowned for his characters that fall into desperation while their world crumbles around them. Raised as a strict Calvinist, Schrader did not see a film until he was 18. After studying at Calvin College, he went on to Columbia University & then UCLA s graduate film programme on the recommendation of Pauline Kael. Under Kaels mentoring he became a film critic, writing for LA Weekly Press & later Cinema magazine. Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer in 1972. In 1975 Schrader co-wrote The Yakuza, a film set in the Japanese crime world directed by Sydney Pollack & starring Robert Mitchum, which although it flopped at the box office, brought him to the attention of the new generation of Hollywood directors. In 1976 he wrote the screenplay of Obsession for Brian De Palma Also that year, Martin Scorcese filmed his script of Taxi Driver which was nominated for a 1997 Golden Globe Award & provided the acclaim & funding that enabled Schrader to direct, Blue Collar, written by his brother Leonard Schrader. Posters Of Auto Focus

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