Bringing out the dead torrent

Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

Director:
Martin Scorsese
Writers (WGA):
Joe Connelly (novel)
Paul Schrader (screenplay)

Genre:
Drama | Thriller

Plot: An Easter story. Frank is a Manhattan medic, working graveyard in a two-man ambulance team. He's burned out, exhausted, seeing ghosts, especially a young woman he failed to save six months' before, and no longer able to save people: he brings in the dead. We follow him for three nights, each with a different partner: Larry, who thinks about dinner, Marcus, who looks to Jesus, and Tom, who wallops people when work is slow. Frank befriends the daughter of a heart victim he brings in; she's Mary, an ex-junkie, angry at her father but now hoping he'll live. Frank tries to get fired, tries to quit, and keeps coming back, to work and to Mary, in need of his own rebirth.

CAST

Nicolas Cage - Frank Pierce
Patricia Arquette - Mary Burke
John Goodman - Larry
Ving Rhames - Marcus
Tom Sizemore - Tom Wolls
Marc Anthony - Noel
Mary Beth Hurt - Nurse Constance
Cliff Curtis - Cy Coates
Nestor Serrano - Dr. Hazmat
Aida Turturro - Nurse Crupp
Afemo Omilami - Griss
Cynthia Roman - Rose
Cullen Oliver Johnson - Mr. Burke
Arthur Nascarella - Captain Barney