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Light Sleeper is a 1992 film written and directed by Paul Schrader. It stars Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, David Clennon and Dana Delany. Schrader's wife Mary Beth Hurt appears as a fortune teller.

Dafoe plays John LeTour, a 40-year-old drug dealer whose drifting existence is thrown into crisis by his boss Ann (Sarandon)'s decision to retire and his own encounter with his ex-lover (Delany), which leads to his involvement in a murder case.

Schrader has described the film as a "man and his room" story like American Gigolo
and his most famous screenplay, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver
. The insomniac LeTour spends his nights writing a journal, but whenever he comes to the end of a volume he simply throws the notebook away.

Light Sleeper also shares with American Gigolo and Schrader's Patty Hearst
an ending patterned after that of Robert Bresson's Pickpocket
in which the imprisoned hero/heroine is shown beginning to contemplate a new and hopefully wider existence.

Schrader considers this to be his best non-Scorsese script.

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