State of Grace is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Sleepers is awesome. It got in some shit for trying to say it was based on a true story when it wasn't. Book was boring. I've never heard of any westies connection this book. I've never read anything on a westie that could be connected to any of this story.
"*The 1996 movie "Sleepers" portrayed The Westies as "The West Side Boys". The two leaders of The West Side Boys, "Tommy 'Butter' Marcano" and "John O'Reilly", were based on two Westies that were close friends, Tommy "Butter" Moresco and Richie Ryan. In the movie’s epilogue, the murder of Tommy Marcano depicted Tommy Moresco's true life murder, and the character of John O’Reilly drank himself to death in a tenement basement, just like Richie Ryan did."
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/941797
