Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1999 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman
This searing collaboration between director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader continues their ongoing inquiry into questions of guilt, torment, faith, and existential meaning. Something like a humanist (and darkly humorous) companion to TAXI DRIVER, BRINGING OUT THE DEAD unfolds over the course of three nerve-wracking nights in the life of Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage), a massively burned-out New York City paramedic working the graveyard shift in Hell’s Kitchen. Plagued by visions of the people he’s tried to save, Pierce finds himself teetering on the edge of madness as he searches the haunted night world for redemption.
Up Next in 1999
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The Limey
Directed by Steven Soderbergh • 1999 • United States
Starring Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann WarrenSteven Soderbergh’s stylish, fascinatingly fractured revenge thriller stars Terence Stamp as a British ex-con who, following his release from prison, heads to Los Angeles to investigate hi...
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Bye Bye Africa
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun • 1999 • Chad, France
Starring Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Garba Issa, Aïcha YelenaThe first feature by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (and the first ever made in Chad) is an autobiographical semidocumentary in which the director plays a version of himself, an African filmmaker...
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Trick
Directed by Jim Fall • 1999 • United States
Starring Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc, Tori SpellingThe Doris Day–style romantic comedy gets a gay 1990s update in this charming, sweetly sexy tale of two Greenwich Village guys—shy aspiring Broadway composer Gabriel (Christian Campbell) and hu...
