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Release Date
• USA: Oct 22, 1999
• UK: 7 Jan 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: May 9, 2000
• R2: 8 Jan 2001
Budget $32,000,000
Official Website:
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for gritty violent content, drug use and language.
Running Time
2 hours, 1 minute
Country USA
Studio Cappa, Paramount, Scott Rudin, Touchstone Pictures
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Other Titles
• Bringing Out the Dead
• Nächte der Erinnerung (1999)
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Genre: Drama, Doctor, Drugs, Black Comedy, Prostitution, Psychodrama, Urban, Disturbing
Tagline: Any call can be murder, any stop can be suicide, any night can be the last. And you thought your job was hell?
Plot: Martin Scorsese exhilaratingly adapts Joe Connelly’s novel about Frank (Nicolas Cage), a paramedic working among the filth and mental desolation of New York City's Hell's Kitchen in the early 1990s. Lately he has been haunted by the visions of a beautiful 18-year-old girl whom he was unable to resuscitate. Soon after, another image begins to torment him, that of Mary (Patricia Arquette), a recovering drug addict who enters Frank's life when he attempts to save her father. His spiral into even further confusion is paralleled with his three driving partners: Larry (a boisterous John Goodman), whose advice to Frank is not to think about all the death and violence; Marcus (a scene-stealing Ving Rhames), a religious fanatic who uses his medical skills as propaganda for the Lord; and Walls (a maniacal Tom Sizemore), a loose cannon who has no sensible grounding whatsoever. In order to escape the madness that is consuming him, Frank asks, unsuccessfully, to be fired. He must ride out the nightmare, trying to redeem the lives of Rose, Mary, and himself in the process. Scorsese uses his camera to capture Frank’s wavering mental state with tilted angles and fast-speed photography. In portraying the tormented Frank, Cage dives wholeheartedly into character, delivering another fiery
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Paul Schrader
Taxi Driver, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Mosquito Coast |
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 | John Goodman
The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Monsters, Inc. |
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Pulp Fiction, Mission: Impossible II, Mission: Impossible |
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