Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

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Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures

Studio: Touchstone Pictures

Rating: R

Release Date: Oct 22, 1999

Running Time: 120 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Marc Anthony, Mary Beth Hurt, Cliff Curtis, Nestor Serrano, Aida Turturro

director: Martin Scorsese

Bringing Out the Dead

Sirens screaming and lights flashing, a New York City ambulance speeds through the night. Its drivers are paramedics working the graveyard shift--men who come face-to-face with the dead and the dying on a daily basis. Burnt out from one too many nights on the job, they are nearly as broken as the bodies they haul through the streets. What keeps them going is their caustic sense of comedy, and an acrid view of a world which seems to have its surreal epicenter in Manhattan.

Throughout the years, director Martin Scorsese has brought an unmistakable sense of being to his films. From his gritty characters to the dark and nasty streets of New York, Scorsese has a tremendous gift of bringing life to everything that inhabits his tales. His most famous partner in crime, screenwriter Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull"), also shares that rare ability to transform the mundane and the ordinary into a living, breathing beast -- one almost universally in need of…

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