Aida Turturro, John Goodman, Marc Anthony
Nicolas Cage plays EMS paramedic Frank Pierce. It is the early 1990's and New York has not yet undergone its renaissance of recent years. Surrounded by the injured and the dying, Frank is dwelling in ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 9, 2000
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September 7, 2009
A very underrated film from Scorsese, who picks an excellent cast who he'd yet to work with. The result is quite refreshing. It's very similar to Taxi driver in a way with the great cinematography and the theme of spiralling into madness. I remember it had a poor reception from c...( read more)
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June 26, 2009
This isn't like a Scorcese movie at all. It's more of a dark comedy, just the director having fun. The cast is right on as a group of EMT's working the overnight shift in New York City. Specifically, Nicholas Cage is a paramedic who is in the middle of a nervous breakdown after l...( read more)
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October 10, 2008
When Martin Scorsese and Paul Scharder get together good things usually happen (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ) and what on the surface appears to be an interesting New York story turns into a film full of overacting that tries to repeat past glory.
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September 6, 2008
A strange film about an ambulance crew in New York and the characters it comes across.
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July 4, 2008
Moments after the credits of "Bringing Out the Dead" rolled, I couldn't feel anything but disappointed. Anything is bound to be a letdown when you're following a writer-director collaboration piece who have previously completed masterpieces such as "Raging Bull". However, now onl...( read more)
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November 18, 2009
The concept of taking a look at the life of a burned-out paramedic is interesting. The fact that he meets the quirky beautiful girl who's messed up but he can help her is a cliché (but I did still sort of like the girl). The ending is morally reprehensible. Solid three stars.
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November 16, 2009
Dark and dramatic. Goodman plays a droned out EMS that is actually the only comedic relief thru-out the film. Decent but not one of my favorites
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November 11, 2009
As you stare at every image on screen you feel like you haven't sleapt in days; that you are just as wraught with insomnia as Frank Pierce is. You feel his guilt and decend into the screen as he decends into madness.
I have to say that I am not a Nicholas Cage fan. That is wit...( read more) -
October 25, 2009
an underrated gem from scorsese, this is one of the most emotional movie from scorsese, this is dark, depressing, ironic, and beautiful.,
i can see why the rating of this movis is below the average of others scorsese's movie, because this is feels so not scorsese,
this is more l...( read more) -
October 24, 2009
"The city doesn't discriminate. It gets everybody."
An underrated masterpiece, Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out The Dead is a bleak, extremely dark drama/comedy. An onscreen credit states that the film "takes place in New York City in the early '90s", but it's not
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