Carlito's Way R

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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 2, 2003
  • Originally Released: 1993
  • Label: Universal Studios

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 124,530
Pacino has his moments but for the most part he's surprisingly underwhelming. He's a great actor but even I can do a better Puerto Rican accent. Full Review
Washington Post
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 4/5 -- Beautifully shot and extremely well acted, Carlito's Way is not only a great crime movie but is also a tragic story of redemption, as one man tries to escape the ghost's of his past and start again. Full Review
Matt's Movie Reviews
Jul 6, 2010
Rating: 3/5 -- "Carlito's Way" is best watched as lively, colorful posturing and as a fine demonstration of this director's bravura visual style.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Rating: 3.5/4 -- "Carlito's Way," like "Scarface," is first and last a character study, a portrait of a man who wants to be better than he is. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
...Rich with irony and keen in its attention to detail. Handsomely made, expertly directed and colorfully acted....Brian De Palma is in top form with CARLITO'S WAY...
Variety
Nov 15, 1993
...Pacino brings vast entertainment value to [the film]....[Penn gives a] strange, jarringly intense performance...
New York Times
Nov 10, 1993
Rating: 4/5 -- Perhaps the last great DePalma film, using his trademarks well but not overusing them. Full Review
7M Pictures
Jul 30, 2012

Product Description:

Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy (Sean Penn). All he wants is to keep his nose clean and earn enough money to start a business in the Bahamas--and maybe rekindle romance with his old flame, played by Penelope Ann Miller. Instead he finds himself back in trouble as a result of old-world codes of honor and misguided loyalties. It all takes place in 1975 Manhattan, in and around a nightclub Carlito manages, so there's plenty of classic disco music pulsing on the soundtrack. John Leguizamo plays one of the younger generation of hoodlums out to prove something. Viggo Mortensen and Luis Guzmán star as a couple of Carlito's buddies from the old days. Brian De Palma, who directed Pacino a decade earlier in SCARFACE, makes this seem almost like that film's sequel. As expected, there's plenty of elaborate tracking shots and suspenseful set pieces, most memorably a pulse-pounding chase through Grand Central Station. It's adapted from two novels by New York Supreme Court Judge Edwin Torres based on his childhood in East Harlem.

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  • Sales Rank: 115,235
  • UPC: 025192145926
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