Kevin Bacon . His notable films include musical-drama film Footloose ( 1984 ) , the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller JFK ( 1991 ) , the legal drama A Few Good Men ( 1992 ) , the historical docudrama Apollo 13 ( 1995 ) , and the mystery drama Mystic River ( 2003 ) . Sleepers is a 1996 American legal crime drama film written , produced , and directed by Barry Levinson , and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra 's 1995 novel of the same name . The film starred Kevin Bacon , Jason Patric , Brad Pitt , Robert De Niro , Dustin Hoffman , Minnie Driver and Vittorio Gassmann .
Kevin Bacon has worked with Barry Levinson.