
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA poignant drama about a person who looks everywhere for saving grace except right in front of him. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertLight Sleeper isn't about the help he can get from psychics, however; it's about desperation that makes him project healing qualities upon anyone who is halfway sympathetic. The movie is familiar with its life of night and need. It finds the real human qualities in a person like the Susan Sarandon character - who, in a crisis, reacts with loyalty and quick thinking. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannLight Sleeper represents Schrader at his best, giving us a character we've become familiar with over the years and Schrader's intimate mastery of our fascination with decadence, loss and redemption. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkThis doesn't have the high style that made Taxi Driver or American Gigolo instant cultural icons - although Schrader shows more than a few traces of Scorsese as his camera creeps- perhaps because it's concerned with a chilly 90s that looks back with a sort of nostalgia on the cocaine-fuelled craziness of earlier years. But it does develop powerfully the themes of Schrader's earlier work and will not disappoint his fans. |
| The SpectatorVanessa LettsThe plot and characterization came across as an adolescent fantasy which had entirely missed its mark. |
| The Seattle TimesJeff ShannonSchrader's dialogue ranks among his best, and Sarandon chews up her delightful role with infectious, boldly confrontational relish. And for a director whose films have often been bleak and almost clinically detached, Light Sleeper presents Schrader in a new and philosophically redemptive light. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris Hicks"Light Sleeper" shows writer-director Paul Schrader's character-development skills in full bloom. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonLittle in this movie makes real sense; and characters (particularly Dafoe and Delany) seem to bump regularly into each other. But there's something transcendentally appealing between the lines. This is a film to be savored for its nuances rather than its story. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrFor all of Schrader's capacity for spectacular self-laceration and spiritual agony, Light Sleeper finds him able for the first time to express a certain peacefulness, and the effect is delicate and discreet. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe PollackThe cast is skillfully alert and Schrader's vision is unencumbered either by sentiment or cynicism. |