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| “ | You were scared little pricks, both a you's. All a you's, scared shitless. But I tried to make you tough, I tried to make you hard. | „ |
| ~ Sean Nokes, justifying his actions to Tommy and John. |
Sean Nokes is the main antagonist of the 1996 legal crime drama film Sleepers.
He was a corrupt juvenile care facility guard who regularly raped and abused the boys he was supposed to care look after. Years later, he is murdered by two of his now-adult victims, setting the plot in motion.
He was portrayed by Kevin Bacon, who also played Martin Thiel in Criminal Law, Wade in The River Wild, Ray Duquette in Wild Things, Sebastian Caine in Hollow Man, Joe Hickey in Trapped, Jacques in Super, Sebastian Shaw in X-Men: First Class, Bobby Hayes in R.I.P.D., Owen Whistler in They/Them, Cade Grant in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, and John Labat in MaXXXine.
Sleepers[]
In the summer of 1967, four boys - Tommy Marcano, John Reilly, Michael Sullivan and Lorenzo "Shakes" Carcaterra - are sent to the juvenile correction facility, the Wilkinson Home for Boys in upstate New York, after causing a prank that nearly killed a man. While at the facility, the boys are systematically abused and raped by the guard Sean Nokes and his friends, Henry Addison, Ralph Ferguson and Adam Styler. The horrifying abuse changes the boys and their friendship forever. Out of shame, they urge their parents in letters not to visit during their stay at the home. Not even to local priest, Father Robert "Bobby" Carillo, who insists on visiting, can they speak openly about these events.
During the boys' stay at the facility, they participate in Wilkinson's annual football game between the guards and inmates, and usually it is clear which team will be victorious. Michael convinces "Rizzo", an intimidating black inmate, that this time the guards should not win out of fear of consequences if the boys withstand, but instead they should hit back as hard as possible. Rizzo agrees and the five and a few more fight on and beat the guards in front of all others watching their disgrace. As a result of this, Shakes, Tommy, Michael, and John are all beaten and thrown into solitary confinement for several weeks, and some of the guards who lost (including Nokes and his friends) brutally beat Rizzo to death.
Through their entire year at the Wilkinson Home for Boys, all four of the boys are subjected to severe physical, mental and sexual torture by the guards, especially Nokes.
Nokes meets a timely end.
Fourteen years later, John and Tommy - now career criminals - enter a bar and recognize Nokes sitting at a table, eating his dinner. They confront Nokes, who at first claims not to remember them, and then dismisses what he and the other guards did as trying to "toughen up" the boys. John and Tommy then shoot Nokes dead in full view of several witnesses.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Lorenzo Carcaterra, the author of the book the film is based on, maintains that it is a completely true story and that Sean Nokes is a different name for a real person, but the person's real identity has been kept secret by the judicial system.
External links[]
- Sean Nokes on the Pure Evil Wiki