Light Sleeper1992

Director
Paul Schrader

Acters

Willem Dafoe (John LeTour)
Susan Sarandon (Ann)
Dana Delany (Marianne Jost)
David Clennon (Robert)
Mary Beth Hurt (Teresa Aranow)
Victor Garber (Tis Brüg)

In what many acclaim to be Paul Schrader’s best film, the man behind the modern classics “Taxi Driver”, “Raging Bull” and “American Gigolo” brings us a Film Noir-drenched tale of redemption.
John LeTour is a courier for upmarket drug dealer Ann. Chauffeured through nighttime New York, LeTour is wracked with guilt as he goes about his work. Desperate to ease his conscience and escape to a better life, just as Annis also planning her exit to respectability, LeTour seeks an end to the loneliness of his dead-end existence. Meanwhile someone is killing women in a series of drug-related incidents.
Sarandon is at her most sexy and self-assured while Dafoe is all doubt and jagged edges as the outsider with a growing sense of foreboding that something horrible is going to happen. Seeming to be condemned to eternal damnation, LeTour faces a mid-life crisis of the soul.
“Light Sleeper is emblematic of an era, and is recommended on that basis and on the excellent quality of it acting.” – Chicago Tribune
“Light Sleeper remains a superior picture from one of America’s more stimulating filmmakers.” – Film4
“From that opening use of ‘World on Fire’, Been’s vocals and melancholic, somber tones feel as rooted in the essence of Light Sleeper as Dafoe’s razor-sharp bone structure, or those heaps of trash bags lining the sidewalks.” – Paste Magazine