CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1992
Light Sleeper posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1992 1h 43m USA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

John LeTour, a 40-year-old New Yorker, is one of two delivery men for Ann, who supplies an exclusive clientele in the banking and financing sector with drugs. While Ann contemplates switching to the cosmetics business, LeTour, who suffers from insomnia, has lost his perspective in life.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon

Ann

Mary Beth Hurt

Mary Beth Hurt

Teresa Aranow

Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell

Jealous

David Spade

David Spade

Theological Cokehead

Jane Adams

Jane Adams

Randi Jost

Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

John LeTour

Dana Delany

Dana Delany

Marianne Jost

David Clennon

David Clennon

Robert