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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Light Sleeper is
a 1992 drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader. It stars Willem
Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, and Dana Delany. Schrader's wife Mary Beth Hurt
appears as a fortune teller. John LeTour (Dafoe) is a 40-year-old drug
dealer whose drifting existence is thrown into crisis when his boss Ann
(Sarandon) decides to retire. He encounters his ex-lover (Delany), by
chance, which leads to his involvement in a murder case concerning a
dead girl who is found in possession of cocaine indirectly linked to
LeTour. 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, and in this case his character dealing with anxiety over
his life and the external forces that threaten it. 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.
