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- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 2, 2003
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Al Pacino & Sean Penn | |
Performer: | Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo, Ingrid Rogers, Luis Guzmán, James Rebhorn, Joseph Siravo, Viggo Mortensen, Richard Foronjy, Jorge Porcel, Frank Minucci & Adrian Pasdar | |
Directed by | Brian De Palma | |
Edited by | Bill Pankow & Kristina Boden | |
Screenplay by | David Koepp | |
Composition by | Patrick Doyle | |
Produced by | Martin Bregman, Michael Bregman & Willi Baer | |
Executive Production by | Ortwin Freyermuth & Louis A. Stroller |
Entertainment Reviews:
Pacino has his moments but for the most part he's surprisingly underwhelming. He's a great actor but even I can do a better Puerto Rican accent.
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Washington Post
Rating: 3.5/4 --
"Carlito's Way," like "Scarface," is first and last a character study, a portrait of a man who wants to be better than he is.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...Pacino is the sexiest he's ever been as the Puerto Rican crook, but it's Penn who really steals the show...
Total Film
3 stars out of 4 -- An exciting and wildly entertaining romp through a seedy 1970s NYC....This movie has lots of heart and style...
Premiere
...Brian De Palma in his best films is a muscular director who relishes over-the-top behavior, and here he paints a gallery of colorful gangsters and lowlifes...
Chicago Sun-Times
Penn, in curled hair and wire-rims, makes a brilliant, slippery high-end shyster; his modulated hysteria is amazing. So is Brian De Palma's direction.
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New Yorker
Rating: 3/5 --
"Carlito's Way" is best watched as lively, colorful posturing and as a fine demonstration of this director's bravura visual style.
New York Times
Product Description:
Notorious 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 honor 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 Guzmán 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.
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- Sales Rank: 34,789
- UPC: 025192145926
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