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Scarface
1983
A tense and violent update of the 1932 Howard Hughes gangster classic with the setting changed from Chicago to Miami. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire for his kid sister (.. Read more
| Starring | Al Pacino, Robert Loggia, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer |
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| Director | Brian De Palma |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Scarface
A tense and violent update of the 1932 Howard Hughes gangster classic with the setting changed from Chicago to Miami. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire for his kid sister (played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) prove his undoing.
| Starring | Al Pacino, Robert Loggia, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Paul Shenar, F. Murray Abraham |
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| Director | Brian De Palma |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 44 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 29 Mar 2004 Production year: 1983 |
| Format | DVD |
Scarface (1983)
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This scorching update of Howard Hawks's 1932 classic by director Brian De Palma relocates events to Miami and follows the rapid rise and violent fall of a Cuban refugee turned cocaine-smuggling kingpin. Al Pacino produces one of his finest scenery-chewing performances as the ruthless criminal pursuing the American dream, and he gets top support from Michelle Pfeiffer as his wife, Steven Bauer as his partner in crime and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as his sister. The accurate, if four-letter-word heavy, dialogue and sharp wit in Oliver Stone's script and the vivid cinematography of John A Alonzo help make De Palma's urban shocker a modern-day classic and one of the best movies ever made about the subject. However, some may find its excess in all areas — especially the final massacre that outdoes The Wild Bunch — more off-putting than entertaining.
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"...The most stylish and provocative -- and maybe the most vicious -- serious film about the American underworld since [THE GODFATHER]....Vivid and arresting."
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26 out of 29 people found this review helpful
You cockaroach!
Fantastic. This film is by far one of the best movies I have ever seen. The story is a remake of a classic gangster movie, this time round though it is set on the sun washed beaches of Miami.
Young Antonio Montana has been set free from a Cuban jail and sent to Miami on a boat (this film is based on the Cuban 'Boat Lift', in which Fiedel Castro sent the dregs of his jails over to the US unaware to US officials.
He soon begins working for a drug kingpin and gets very ambitious! -
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11 out of 14 people found this review helpful
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Average Gangster movie
Had to rent this purely because it's a film you always hear about and its part of movie history.
Was rather disappointed though as the acting was on the whole quite poor and it does really drag for almost 3 hours.
Al Pacino is great though in this role. I guess at the time this was a great movie. Just seems rather dated now. -
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