Bringing Out The Dead (DVD)

Darkly comic drama from the creative team behind 'Taxi Driver'. New York paramedic Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage) is close to cracking up: his graveyard shift is taking its toll, and he is tortured by visions of those he could not save from death. Over three successive nights with three different colleagues - Larry (John Goodman), Marcus (Ving Rhames) and Walls (Tom Sizemore) - Frank searches desperately for salvation, seemingly unable to halt his slide into madness and despair.

General

Studio:	Touchstone
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2008
Movie released:	1999
Actors:	Nicolas Cage • Patricia Arquette • John Goodman • Ving Rhames • Tom Sizemore • Marc Antony • Mary Beth Hurt • Cliff Curtis • Nestor Serrano • Aida Turturro • Sonja Sohn • Martin Scorsese
Contributors:	Scott Rudin • Barbara de Fina • Paul Schrader • Elmer Bernstein
Directors:	Martin Scorsese
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Languages:	English
Age restriction:	18
Categories:	DVD > Drama DVD > Thriller DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	XFP-BDC-8KE-1
Barcode:	5017188881753

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BRINGING OUT THE DEAD

Thu, 16 May 2013 | Review by: Micky B

What another critic has termed as being <i>a modern-day film noir,</i> this is undoubedly a typical Martin Scorsese-directed picture, set in Scorecese's home turf of New York. Frank Pierce (Nicholas Cage) is an overworked paramedic who is operating in the Manhatten area. With a differrnt partner every night, he finds himself consistently assigned to the "graveyard shift." He is so exhausted and depressed that he starts seeing ghosts walking the streets – particularly that of a young woman whom he had failed to save six months previously. During the course of his duties, Frank befriends the daughter Mary (Patricia Arquette) of a cardiac patient he has brought in. She is a former junkie ths before. Over three days, he is assigned a shift per day, each with a different partner. While working with them, he befriends the daughter of a cardiac arrest patient he brought in, Mary (Arquette), a former heroin junkie. Frank then finds that he has to battle against against the massive effects of a new form of heroin that is hitting the streets, as well as his own psychological demons. Fans of Scorsese will certainly get their moneysworth from this one!

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