Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

22/10/1999 (US)•Drama•2h 1m

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Any call can be murder, any stop can be suicide, any night can be the last.

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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.

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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

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A review by John Chard

9.0

Written by John Chard on Jun 28, 2014

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. Ba...