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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Director:
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Brian De Palma
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Actors:
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Richard Foronjy,
Ingrid Rogers,
Frank Minucci,
Ángel Salazar,
Jorge Porcel,
Al Pacino,
Sean Penn,
Penelope Ann Miller,
John Leguizamo,
Luis Guzmán,
James Rebhorn,
Joseph Siravo,
Viggo Mortensen,
Adrian Pasdar,
John Ortiz
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Duration:
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144 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)105
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Plot Summary:
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Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from hoosegow on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his gimcrack lawyer buddy (Sean Penn). All he wants is to save up his nose clean and earn sufficiency legal tender to start a business in the Bahamas--and rekindle fiction with his old flame, played by Penelope Ann Miller. Instead he finds himself rearwards in nettle as a result of old-earth codes of honour and fallacious loyalties. It all takes place in 1975 Manhattan, in and around a nightclub Carlito manages, so there's plenty of classic disco music p... ulsing on the soundtrack. John Leguizamo plays one of the younger start of hoodlums out to evince 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 sound on the verge of like that film's sequel. As expected, there's slews of expatiate tracking shots and suspenseful set pieces, most memorably a pulse-pounding chase completely Stately Central Station. It's adapted from two novels by Unknown York Principal Court Rule Edwin Torres based on his childhood in East Harlem.
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Pacino's best work since Scarface
Words can't describe how many levels this film works on. It's a tragic love story - but not slushy enough to ruin the film, and it's a classic 'you reep what you sew' story but without being too 'moral'. With a well chosen cast, this film is believable, honest and gripping. Cool soundtrack too!
Carlito's Way
Al Pacino plays it Puero Rican, as an ex-con desperate to escape his gangster past, while Sean Penn lights up the screen as a geek lawyer intent on keeping him up to the eyeballs in crime
Although the story of De Palma's gangster pic is familiar (gangster gets out of prison and tries to go straight but is soon dragged back into a life of crime), it's rarely been done quite so stylishly and suspensefully as it is here.
Pacino is Carlito, whose sleazy lawyer (an unrecognisable Penn in curly mop-top and specs) manages to reduce his sentence and re-involve him in all manner of murder, mayhem and extortion once he's free - even though all he wants is to rekindle his relationship with dancer Gail (Miller).
Ultimately the movie belongs to Penn, whose perfo...
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