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Carlito's Way
1993
Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy (Sean Penn). All he wants is to keep his nose clean and earn enough money to start a business in the Bahamas--and maybe rekindle romance with his old flame, played by .. Read more
| Starring | Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, Viggo Mortensen |
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| Director | Brian De Palma |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
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Carlito's Way
Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy (Sean Penn). All he wants is to keep his nose clean and earn enough money to start a business in the Bahamas--and maybe rekindle romance with his old flame, played by Penelope Ann Miller. Instead he finds himself back in trouble as a result of old-world codes of honour and misguided loyalties. It all takes place in 1975 Manhattan, in and around a nightclub Carlito manages, so there's plenty of classic disco music pulsing on the soundtrack. John Leguizamo plays one of the younger generation of hoodlums out to prove something. Viggo Mortensen and Luis Guzman star as a couple of Carlito's buddies from the old days. Brian De Palma, who directed Pacino a decade earlier in SCARFACE, makes this seem almost like that film's sequel. As expected, there's plenty of elaborate tracking shots and suspenseful set pieces, most memorably a pulse-pounding chase through Grand Central Station. It's adapted from two novels by New York Supreme Court Judge Edwin Torres based on his childhood in East Harlem.
| Starring | Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, Viggo Mortensen, Adrian Pasdar, James Rebhorn, Luis Guzman, John Leguizamo, Joseph Siravo, Jorge Porcel, Richard Foronjy, Ingrid Rogers, Frank Minucci, Jorge Porce |
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| Director | Brian De Palma |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 18 mins HD DVD: 2 hrs 18 mins |
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| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, Spanish |
| Subtitles | Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 24 Jul 2000 HD DVD: 10 Dec 2007 Production year: 1993 |
| Format | DVD |
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Ten years after Scarface, Al Pacino and director Brian De Palma reunited for another crime-doesn't-pay drama. Pacino plays Puerto Rican hoodlum Carlito Brigante, who's sprung from jail by his lawyer Sean Penn and is determined to go straight. But Penn, who fancies himself as a gangster, scoffs at the idea, and when Pacino meets up with his old acquaintances, he's soon back in trouble. Combined with regular scriptwriter David Koepp's smart and funny script, De Palma's visual flair comes into its own in the seedy clubs and backstreet dives of New York. The set pieces — a pool-room fight, a 15-minute subway chase and shenanigans on a train-station escalator — are among the most thrilling De Palma has ever filmed, while Pacino's restrained performance as the leather-clad, gently lisping Carlito allows plenty of scope for the supporting cast to chew the scenery.
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"...Rich with irony and keen in its attention to detail. Handsomely made, expertly directed and colorfully acted....Brian De Palma is in top form with CARLITO'S WAY..."
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20 out of 32 people found this review helpful
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Liked Scarface you should enjoy this!
Brian De palma and Al Pacino combine in a great production that is perhaps a more rounded, complete work than the much earlier and more reknowned Scarface.
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- younglochinvar from Prestatyn
- Posted 03 Oct 2007 14:31
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Forget Scarface this is the real deal
A more mature Scarface as a street gangster attempts to get away from the life of crime but inevitably gets drawn back in. Slow-paced with Sean Penn's lawyer getting most of the plaudits although I preferred a more considered Pacino who does manage to put across the sadness of the character who can't quite make things work in his life. A great final twenty minutes gives the film a must-see element but it doesn't hide the fact that the central love story, which really is the key driving force behind the lead character's motivation, fails miserably and it loses half a point because of it.
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Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy (Sean Penn). All he wants is to keep his nose clean and earn enough money to start a business in the Bahamas--and maybe rekindle romance ...
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Carlito's Way
Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy (Sean Penn). All he wants is to keep his nose clean and earn enough money to start a business in the Bahamas--and maybe rekindle romance ...
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