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Oct 22, 1999 · “Bringing Out the Dead” is an antidote to the immature intoxication with violence in a film like “Fight Club.” It is not fun to get hit, it is not redeeming to cause pain, it does not make you a man when you fight, because fights are an admission that you are not smart enough to survive by your wits.
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After a disheartening and haunting career wears him down, New York City paramedic Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage) begins to collapse under the strain of saving lives and witnessing deaths.
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- Martin Scorsese
- R
- Nicolas Cage
Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead is a mélange of moods and genres ranging from Gothic horror to Bergmanesque spiritual rumination. Full Review | Sep 16, 2024
Bringing Out the Dead: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames. Haunted by the patients he failed to save, a monumentally burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three increasingly turbulent nights.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Martin Scorsese
- 1999-10-22
He plays an EMS paramedic named Frank Pierce, a man on the verge of mental collapse. Haunted by images of an 18-year-old girl who died in his care, Frank, along with three other paramedics in shifts, scours the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen, answering distress calls on his dispatcher radio.
Martin Scorsese — plus screenwriter Paul Schrader, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and cinematographer Robert Richardson — reimagine nocturnal New York City as an eternally flaming circle of hell in this darkly funny fever dream.
Oct 22, 1999 · I did not love Bringing Out the Dead. A compelling character study, the film simply does not resolve enough about its premise to be a truly good film. The whole film builds up to something and the pay-off, if it is there, is so not worth it.
