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Bringing Out the Dead
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| Bringing Out the Dead | |
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| Directed by | Martin Scorsese |
| Produced by | Barbara De Fina, Scott Rudin |
| Written by | Paul Schrader, Joe Connelly (novel) |
| Starring | Nicolas Cage John Goodman Ving Rhames Tom Sizemore Patricia Arquette |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (USA) Touchstone Pictures (non-USA) |
| Release date(s) | October 22, 1999 |
| Running time | 121 min. |
| Country | USA  |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $32,000,000 |
| IMDb profile | |
Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 English language motion picture. It is a dark drama about Paramedics shot mostly at night in New York City, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, and Tom Sizemore as paramedics, as well as Patricia Arquette. The movie is based on a novel by Joe Connelly, a former New York City medic.
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The movie is centered on paramedic Frank Pierce (Cage). It takes place over the course of three days as Pierce works three separate shifts with three different partners (Goodman, Rhames, and Sizemore characters). Each of these characters are very different people and thus each shift is a very different experience for Pierce. For example, Rhames's character is a born again Christian, a subject which arises on several occasions during their time together.
Pierce is burned out and somewhat unstable from too many years on the job. He works several long shifts in a row and behaves erratically. He has visions of a young girl named Rose who died of a severe asthma attack while under his care. The most vivid of these happens after Pierce takes some unknown pills that a drug dealer offers him and starts having frightening hallucinations which are also frightening to Sizemore, which is no mean feat in itself, and therefore one of the more humorous scenes of the film. He also starts feeling close to Mary Burke (Arquette), the daughter of a heart attack victim.
The film received generally positive reviews with the review tallying website rottentomatoes.com reporting that 70 out of the 97 reviews they tallied were positive for a score of 72% and a certification of "fresh".[1]
- This is the third film with Nicolas Cage to be made by Paramount Pictures and Touchstone Pictures, after Face/Off and Snake Eyes.
- This is also the fourth time that writer Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese have collaborated.
- Tied with Sleepy Hollow as the last film released in America on laserdisc.
- ^ rottentomatoes.com, Bringing Out the Dead Entry, accessed January 29, 2007
- Bringing Out the Dead at the Internet Movie Database
- Bringing Out the Dead at Rotten Tomatoes
- Roger Ebert's extremely positive review of the film
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