Born As: Billy Crudup Sex: Male Height: 5' 7" Nationality: US - United States of America Date of Birth: July 8, 1968 Place of Birth: Manhasset, New York, USA
Having grown up in the '70s and '80s, I only think of the '50s in terms of clichéd sitcoms. ... I didn't remember a lot of stories about class struggle and how that must have informed suburban communities.
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Has a son named William Atticus, with actress Mary Louise Parker.
Sleepers (1996) After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized; 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge. Tommy, John, Michael, and Shakes are four young teenage punks growing up in the streets of Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen in the mid-1960s. When these four friends pull a prank that that goes awry, they find themselves serving time at the Wilkinson School for Boys, where they are repeatedly and sadistically violated and tortured by four guards--the most menacing being Noles, portrayed by Kevin Bacon. Fifteen years later, the foursome is still dealing with the emotional repercussions of their abuse. Tommy (Billy Crudup) and John (Ron Eldard) have become common criminals, and when they spot Noles in a local watering hole they can’t pass up the chance for revenge. It’s up to Shakes (Jason Patric), a low-profile newspaper employee, and Michael (Brad Pitt), a lawyer with the district attorney’s office, to save their friends while keeping the details of their tortured childhoods secret. Dustin Hoffman appears as Danny Snyder, and Robert De Niro stars as Father Bobby, the local neighborhood priest who is as comfortable on the streets or in a bar as he is behind the pulpit. Based on the allegedly true story by Lorenzo Carcaterra, the film is directed by Barry Levinson (DINER, RAIN MAN).
