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- Criminal HeroesGangstersTragic HeroDrug DealingGoing StraightStarting OverHaunted By the PastCrimes more...
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- CrimeNeo NoirDrama
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- 20th Century90s
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- New YorkNightclub
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- Boys' Night
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Carlito's Way, 1993
English, Spanish
USA
Profile of Carlito's Way
The mood of Carlito's Way is captivating, rough, and bleak. The plot centers around going straight, a tragic hero, and starting over. It is a crime and drama movie. Stylistically, Carlito's Way is neo-noir. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, at a nightclub. Carlito's Way is set in New York. It happens in the 1990s. The musical score is disco. Carlito's Way is known for being critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that it includes strong violent content, drugs/alcohol, and nudity.
Summary of 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 honor 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 Guzmán 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.
Details
| Language: | English, Spanish |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 10 November 1993 |
| Runtime: | 144 min |
Cast and Crew
as Carlito 'Charlie' Brigante
as David Kleinfeld
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- 20.March.2009
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- by: sethdellinger
- sethdellinger rated this movie
0/10
- 12.October.2008
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- by: barak gilon
- barak gilon rated this movie
9/10Amazing
