Paramount Pictures
Scott Rudin Productions
Touchstone Pictures
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Bringing Out the Dead
Any call can be murder, any stop can be suicide, any night can be the last.
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
- Original title
- Bringing Out the Dead
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $32,000,000
- Revenue
- $16,797,191
JPV852
Oct 19, 2024 · via TMDB
Been a long time since I last watched this and according to IMDb I gave it a 3/10. With the new Paramount release on 4K, I decided to give it another watch and while I can appreciate some of the style and even performances, this one just didn't do much for me and is one of Scorsese's lesser movies. Probably won't ever revisit this one. **2.25/5**
John Chard
Jun 28, 2014 · via TMDB
Powerful and engrossing cinema from a truly great team. Frank Pierce is a member of the Nork York paramedics, serving the Hell's Kitchen district he is witness to some terrible incidents. As he starts to crack under the pressure of the job, and getting no help from a succession of zany partners, Frank may just find solace with an ex-junkie girl who's father he brought in dying of a heart attack. Martin Scorsese can never be accused of not being adventurous, after dabbling in Eastern spiritualism with 1997s Kundun, he returns to New York and tackles a wing of America's tortured heroes. Based on the novel by Joe Connelly, Bringing Out The Dead is at times a difficult watch in many ways, but it's haunting poignancy is told with brilliantly adroit ease from one of America's famed directors, whilst it has to be said that the humour that is in there is darkly genius in its execution. We are along for the ride with haunted Frank for three days (and nights) as he and his borderline bonkers partners deal with overdoses, heart attacks, drunks and a notably cynical virgin birth! As Frank starts to see ghosts of people he couldn't save in the past, Scorsese and his team treat us to an adrenalin fuelled nightmare, the editing (Thelma Schoonmaker) is swift and explosive like, Robert Richardson's cinematography framing certain aspects of this journey with impacting deftness, and then we have the soundtrack. Scorsese is always a man who takes great care in sound tracking his movies, in fact few modern day directors can touch his knack for a perfect soundtrack. Fusing Motown with 70s Punk Rock would seem an odd combination, but all of it works as the paramedics start to feel the strain and (in some cases) as the mania takes hold. It's rare to hear a New York Dolls track in a movie, to hear a Johnny Thunders solo track is as rare as a dog that speaks Norwegian, and here the use of Thunders' You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory is pitch perfect, impacting so. Such is the use of early Clash standards as our protagonists feed off each others precarious mental conditions, it's a soundtrack to savour basically. Nicholas Cage plays Frank Pierce, and it's a great performance full of restraint and honesty, it's the sort of performance that his detractors tend to forget about such is its emotive simplicity. Tom Sizemore (wonderfully manic), Ving Rhames, John Goodman and Patricia Arquette fill out the cast and all do fine work, but I'm sure they would be the first to acknowledge the excellence of Paul Schrader's screenplay. This piece is far from being a masterpiece, but with it's intensity sitting side by side with a paramedics need for coping, it's clear that Scorsese and his talented team have made one of the most astute and undervalued pieces of the 90s. 9/10
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Nicolas Cage
Frank Pierce
Patricia Arquette
Mary Burke
John Goodman
Larry Verber
Ving Rhames
Marcus
Tom Sizemore
Tom Wolls
Marc Anthony
Noel
Mary Beth Hurt
Nurse Constance
Cliff Curtis
Cy Coates
Aida Turturro
Nurse Crupp
Nestor Serrano
Dr. Hazmat
Sonja Sohn
Kanita
Larry Fessenden
Cokehead
Arthur J. Nascarella
Captain Barney
Martin Scorsese
Dispatcher (voice)
Queen Latifah
Dispatcher Love (voice)
Michael Kenneth Williams
Drug Dealer
Craig muMs Grant
Voice in Crowd
John Heffernan
Mr. Oh
Judy Reyes
ICU Nurse
Afemo Omilami
Griss
Julyana Soelistyo
Sister Fetus
Graciela Lecube
Neighbor Woman
Marylouise Burke
Neighbor Woman
Phyllis Somerville
Mrs. Burke
Tom Riis Farrell
John Burke
Aleks Shaklin
Arguing Russian
Leonid Citer
Arguing Russian
Fuschia!
Prostitute
Matthew Maher
Mr. Oh's Friend
Don Berry
Naked Man
Omar Scroggins
Bystander
Andy Davoli
Stanley
Jesse Malin
Club Doorman
Jon Abrahams
Club Bystander
Lia Yang
Dr. Milagros
Antone Pagán
Arrested Man
Melissa Marsala
Bridge & Tunnel Girl
Betty Miller
Weeping Woman
Sylva Kelegian
Crackhead
Catrina Ganey
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Tom Cappadona
Drunk
Jack A. O'Connell
Drunk
Richard Spore
Homeless Suicidal
James Hanlon
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Michael Mulheren
Cop in Elevator
David Zayas
Cop in Elevator
Terry Serpico
Cop #1
Carolyn Campbell
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Michael Carbonaro
Club Kid (uncredited)
Brian Smyj
Cop #2 (uncredited)
Dante Ferretti
Production Design
William F. Reynolds
Set Decoration
John Davis
Storyboard Artist
Robert Richardson
Director of Photography
Rita Ryack
Costume Design
Marco Kyris
Stand In
Conrad E. Palmisano
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Jalil Jay Lynch
Stunt Driver
Blaise Corrigan
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Chris Cenatiempo
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Peter Epstein
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Martin Scorsese
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Thelma Schoonmaker
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Bruce Winant
ADR Voice Casting
Karen Koula Sossiadis
Assistant Production Coordinator
Ellen Lewis
Casting
Damon Michael Gordon
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Scott Rudin
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Elmer Bernstein
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Elmer Bernstein
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Jon Alexander
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Paul Schrader
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