Bringing Out the Dead

Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

66%
1212votes
3popularity
121min

"Any call can be murder, any stop can be suicide, any night can be the last."
Budget:$32,000,000
Revenue:$16,797,191
Release:10/22/1999
Genres:Drama
Original language:English
Spoken languages:English
Countries:United States of America

Overview:

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.… Expand

Production companies:

Scott Rudin Productions
United States of America
Touchstone Pictures
United States of America
Paramount Pictures
United States of America
Cappa/De Fina Productions
United States of America

Cast

Cast

Videos

Nicolas Cage Gives Narcan - Full Scene
9/20/2024Clip
Bringing Out The Dead - Trailer - (1999)
12/17/2008Trailer

Videos

Recommendations

Movie
2024
62%
Asphalt City
Movie
1990
78%
Awakenings
Movie
1990
66%
Reversal of Fortune
Movie
1999
68%
The Bone Collector
Movie
2002
62%
The Mothman Prophecies
Movie
2008
61%
Choke
Movie
1987
64%
Less Than Zero
Movie
2014
74%
If I Stay
Movie
2019
68%
Fractured
Movie
2018
67%
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Movie
1997
73%
Deconstructing Harry
Movie
2007
60%
The Nines
Movie
1967
70%
Point Blank
Movie
2015
65%
Heaven Knows What
Movie
2008
76%
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Movie
1984
84%
Once Upon a Time in America
Movie
1998
73%
Patch Adams
Movie
1987
63%
Ironweed
Movie
1991
66%
The Prince of Tides
Movie
2020
73%
Uncle Frank

Recommendations

Reviews

90%
John Chard
- Created:6/28/2014
- Updated:5/16/2024
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… Expand
40%
JPV852
- Created:10/19/2024
- Updated:10/19/2024
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**… Expand

Filmoteka

Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

Cast

Cast

Videos

Videos

Recommendations

Recommendations

Reviews

Reviews

Recommendations

Reviews

Videos