Parents Guide for
Sleepers (1996)

Guards at the home for boys sexually molest, sodomize, and rape some children. It is implied out of frame, and is not particularly graphic. There's also other nudity, though nothing too graphic.

There's some scenes of intense domestic violence, some shootings and killings (some seen on photos, though they're very graphic) and we see a body hanging from a street lamp plus two shots are heard but we do not see the impact

A man is shot with graphic bloodspatter.

about 60 F-bombs

Several characters smoke a lot of times.

Several characters are known to suffer from alcoholism and/or drug abuse/addiction. No scenes of illicit drug use.

References to alcohol use, and several scenes of adults drinking at a pub.

The scenes at the home for boys are intense, and brutal violence and sexual abuse against children play a major role in the plot throughout the film.