Light Sleeper

About Light Sleeper

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.

Paul Schrader's Light Sleeper is a 1992 crime film. It runs 103 minutes and was released in August 1992.

The film is filed under drug dealer, redemption, existentialism, and addict.

Willem Dafoe takes the lead as John LeTour, Susan Sarandon as Ann, Dana Delany as Marianne Jost, and David Clennon as Robert. The screenplay is by Paul Schrader. In the United States it streams on BFI Player Amazon Channel, Howdy Amazon Channel, and Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel.

Smile 2, The Room Next Door, and Heaven Knows What make useful companions to Light Sleeper, all filed under new york city and suicide. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 227 votes and it carries a R rating.