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Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy. 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. Instead he finds himself back in trouble as a result of old-world codes of honour and misguided loyalties.
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ProducerWilli Baer, Martin Bregman, Michael Scott Bregman
EAN5035822003446
eBay Product ID (ePID)3946139
Product Key Features
ActorPenelope Ann Miller, Richard Foronjy, Viggo Mortensen, Al Pacino, Joseph Siravo, Ingrid Rogers, Adrian Pasdar, James Rebhorn, John Leguizamo, Frank Minucci, Sean Penn, Luis Guzman, Jorge Porcel
FeaturesOriginal Theatrical Trailer\Production Notes\Cast and Film Makers Notes, Widescreen, With Subtitles
GenreAction & Adventure
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Additional InformationNotorious 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 honour 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 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 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.
ReviewsNew York Times - ...Pacino brings vast entertainment value to [the film]....[Penn gives a] strange, jarringly intense performance..., Variety - ...Rich with irony and keen in its attention to detail. Handsomely made, expertly directed and colorfully acted....Brian De Palma is in top form with CARLITO'S WAY..., Sight and Sound - ...A fierce Pacino performance...and a trio of big action sequences as exciting as anything seen on screen...