Scarface (Blu-ray) R
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Scarface (Gold Edition) (2-DVD)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 12, 2016
- Originally Released: 1983
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio & Robert Loggia | |
Performer: | Harris Yulin & F. Murray Abraham | |
Directed by | Brian De Palma | |
Edited by | Jerry Greenberg & David Ray | |
Screenwriting by | Oliver Stone | |
Composition by | Giorgio Moroder | |
Produced by | Martin Bregman | |
Director of Photography: | John A. Alonzo |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Say "hello" to my little friend!"
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Stone sticks all too closely to the dated plot structure of the original movie, and such melodramatic flourishes as Montana's incestuous attraction for his sister now seem completely ludicrous.
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New York Daily News
5 stars out of 5 -- It's undoubtedly the larger than life quality of the film which pleases many, but young turk Oliver Stone also delivers a potent screenplay...
Ultimate DVD
Rating: 4/5 --
One fundamentally dishonest character choice launched a billion-dollar industry. But it hardly sours a film that became a garishly ghoulish, bleakly funny and compulsively watchable template for modern-criminal deconstructions of the American Dream.
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The Film Yap
Performances are all extremely effective, with Pacino leading the way.
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Variety
...This Brian DePalma butcher block has found a thriving life of its own...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
...Pfeiffer, now as then, steals the show...
USA Today
...SCARFACE is a grandiose modern morality play....[The film] possesses an engaging topicality and packs a punch...
Variety
Product Description:
Brian De Palma's blood-and-sun-drenched saga of a Cuban deportee's rise to the top of Miami's cocaine business has become something of a popular classic since its release; it's been referenced in rap songs and subsequent gangster movies and quoted the world over. Despite this lovefest with the dialogue, the film's brutal violence and lack of positive characters still make it controversial and disliked by certain critics. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire for his kid sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) prove his undoing. Michelle Pfeiffer plays Tony's neglected coke-addicted trophy wife, and Steven Bauer is his concerned friend. F. Murray Abraham, Robert Loggia, and Paul Shenar are some of Tony's sleazy business partners and potential killers. Oliver Stone wrote the expletive-packed screenplay, based on Howard Hawks's 1932 version--which was ostensibly about Al Capone and starred Paul Muni and George Raft. The synth-heavy Giorgio Moroder score expertly evokes the drug-fueled decadence of 1980s Miami, and De Palma provides several of his elaborate set pieces, including a horrific showstopper in a motel room with a chain saw.
Keywords:
Drugs
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Gangs
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Organized Crime
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Murder
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Recommended
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Character Study
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Disturbing
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Theatrical Release
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Crime
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Essential Cinema