Light Sleeper

Light Sleeper

1992 · 103 min · EN · R · 6.5 (130 votes)
Dir. Paul Schrader · Starring Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon, Mary Beth Hurt, Victor Garber · Music Michael Been

He was a good man in a deadly business. She was his only way out.

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A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. A reformed addict, he has never gotten over the wife that left him, and the couple that use him for deliveries worry about his mental well-being and his effectiveness at his job. Meanwhile someone is killing women in apparently drug-related incidents.

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A hazy, introspective journey through the weary life of a man adrift. It's a slow, melancholic descent into existential dread, punctuated by moments of quiet desperation and the lingering ghosts of past mistakes.

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