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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Martin Scorsese |
| Stars: |
Ving Rhames |
| Actors: |
Cynthia Roman |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
New York City · 1990s |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
VHS |
| UPC: |
097363356400 |
| Release Date: |
1999 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 0min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Checkpoint Anamorphic Widescreen, 2hr 0min Release Company: Paramount Home Entertainment (May 09, 2000) UPC: 097363356424 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS: Special Edition (Fullscreen), 2hr 1min Release Company: Paramount Home Entertainment (October 03, 2000) UPC: 097361559537 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Paul Schrader |
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Professional Reviews
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(10/22/1999, p.C1, Kenneth Turan): "...Gritty, hallucinatory....Scorsese turns this project into an impressive exercise in visual style..." |
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| Details: |
Martin Scorsese exhilaratingly adapts Joe Connelly's novel about Frank (Nicolas Cage), a paramedic working among the filth and mental desolation of New York City's Hell's Kitchen in the early 1990s. Lately he has been haunted by the visions of a beautiful 18 year-old girl whom he was unable to resuscitate. Soon after, another image begins to torment him, that of Mary (Patricia Arquette), a recovering drug addict who enters Frank's life when he attempts to save her father. His spiral into even further confusion is paralleled with his three driving partners: Larry (a boisterous John Goodman), whose advice to Frank is not to think about all the death and violence; Marcus (a scene-stealing Ving Rhames), a religious fanatic who uses his medical skills as propaganda for the Lord; and Walls (a maniacal Tom Sizemore), a loose cannon who has no sensible grounding whatsoever. In order to escape the madness that is consuming him, Frank asks, unsuccessfully, to be fired. He must ride out the nightmare, trying to red... |
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