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Light Sleeper: Background, Cast & Reception

Light Sleeper is a 1992 American neo-noir crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, and Dana Delany. Set in New York City during a sanitation strike, the story follows a high-class drug dealer battling a midlife crisis (Dafoe) before becoming embroiled in tragic events following the chance encounter…

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Light Sleeper topic overview

The analysis highlights Background, Cast and Reception as prominent areas in the source structure around Light Sleeper.

Related topics
47
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
52
Extracted relationships
43
Related term clusters
15
Bridge connections
52

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Background · 23 topics
Overview · 9 topics
Cast · 7 topics
Reception · 7 topics
Plot · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Box office
$1,055,987
Budget
$5 million
Cinematography
Edward Lachman
Country
United States
Directed by
Paul Schrader
Distributed by
Fine Line Features

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Overview

Plot

Cast

Background

Reception

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Light Sleeper connects Entity context

The extracted context around Light Sleeper shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Light Sleeper → Adam Resurrected, Affliction, American Gigolo, Auto Focus, Christ, Dafoe, Dog Eat Dog, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese's The Last, Paul Schrader, Robert Bresson's Pickpocket, Schrader, Temptation, The Card Counter, The Walker, Willem Dafoe Another extracted example is Light Sleeper → Film, Metacritic, Paul Schrader, Roger Ebert, Rotten Tomatoes, Schrader, Willem Dafoe. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Light Sleeper

Top relations

related to background · 16
Light Sleeper → Adam Resurrected, Affliction, American Gigolo, Auto Focus, Christ, Dafoe, Dog Eat Dog, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese's The Last, Paul Schrader, Robert Bresson's Pickpocket, Schrader, Temptation, The Card Counter, The Walker, Willem Dafoe
related to Reception · 7
Light Sleeper → Film, Metacritic, Paul Schrader, Roger Ebert, Rotten Tomatoes, Schrader, Willem Dafoe
Starring · 5
Light Sleeper → Dana Delany, David Clennon, Mary Beth Hurt, Susan Sarandon, Willem Dafoe
Box office · 1
Light Sleeper → $1,055,987
Budget · 1
Light Sleeper → $5 million
Cinematography · 1
Light Sleeper → Edward Lachman
Country · 1
Light Sleeper → United States
Directed by · 1
Light Sleeper → Paul Schrader
Distributed by · 1
Light Sleeper → Fine Line Features
Edited by · 1
Light Sleeper → Kristina Boden

Important terminology

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Important terminology

film schrader letour light sleeper dafoe willem ann delany one new paul box office marianne tis american story time susan

Light Sleeper relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 43 structured relationships around Light Sleeper. Examples in this analysis include Light Sleeper → Box office → $1,055,987 and Light Sleeper → Budget → $5 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Light SleeperBox office$1,055,9871.00infobox
Light SleeperBudget$5 million1.00infobox
Light SleeperCinematographyEdward Lachman1.00infobox
Light SleeperCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Light SleeperDirected byPaul Schrader1.00infobox
Light SleeperDistributed byFine Line Features1.00infobox
Light SleeperEdited byKristina Boden1.00infobox
Light SleeperLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Light SleeperMusic byMichael Been1.00infobox
Light SleeperProduced byLinda Reisman1.00infobox
Light SleeperProduction companySeven Arts1.00infobox
Light SleeperRelease dateAugust 21, 1992 (1992-08-21)1.00infobox
Light SleeperRunning time103 minutes1.00infobox
Light SleeperStarringWillem Dafoe1.00infobox
Light SleeperStarringSusan Sarandon1.00infobox
Light SleeperStarringDana Delany1.00infobox
Light SleeperStarringDavid Clennon1.00infobox
Light SleeperStarringMary Beth Hurt1.00infobox
Light SleeperWritten byPaul Schrader1.00infobox
Light Sleeperis a1992 American neo-noir crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring Willem Dafoe0.90text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Light Sleeper bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Sleeper, Willem and Film. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Light Sleeper
    • Sleeper
    • Willem
    • Film
    • Dafoe
    • Box
    • Office
    • Paul
    • Schrader
    • Directed
    • Starring
    • Written
    • Critics
  • light sleeper
    • Sleeper
    • Willem
    • Film
    • Dafoe
    • Box
    • Office
    • Paul
    • Schrader
    • Directed
    • Starring
    • Written
    • Critics
  • drama film
    • Schrader
    • Light
    • Sleeper
    • Willem
    • Story
    • Dafoe
    • Critics
    • Dana
    • Gigolo
    • Sarandon
    • Susan
    • Box
  • paul schrader
    • Starring
    • Written
    • Sarandon
    • Susan
    • Willem
    • Schrader
    • Time
    • Sleeper
    • One
    • Story
    • Beth
    • Clennon
  • willem dafoe
    • Willem
    • Delany
    • Susan
    • Dana
    • Sarandon
    • Paul
    • Schrader
    • Beth
    • Clennon
    • David
    • Light
    • Mary
  • dana delany
    • Sarandon
    • Susan
    • Delany
    • Beth
    • Clennon
    • David
    • Directed
    • Mary
    • Starring
    • Written
    • John
    • Willem
  • new york city
    • Beth
    • Clennon
    • David
    • Drug
    • External
    • Mary
    • Starring
    • Written
    • Sleeper
    • Gigolo
    • John
    • Sarandon
  • david clennon
    • Beth
    • Clennon
    • David
    • Mary
    • Dana
    • John
    • Sarandon
    • Susan
    • Delany
    • Directed
    • External
    • Starring

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Light Sleeper, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Light Sleeper with Background. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Light Sleeper — Background · splits 29 ⟂ 24
Light Sleeper — Overview · splits 43 ⟂ 10
Light Sleeper — Cast · splits 45 ⟂ 8
Light Sleeper — Reception · splits 45 ⟂ 8

Map overview Semantic statistics

Light Sleeper

Nodes53
Edges52
Triples43
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037736
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Light Sleeper to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Background, Cast & Reception, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Light Sleeper · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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