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Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

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Release Date: October 22, 1999
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 121 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for gritty violent content, drug use and language.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Paul Schrader, Joe Connelly
Cast: Aida Turturro, Mary Beth Hurt, Bart DeFinna, Cliff Curtis, Marc Anthony, Tom Sizemore, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, Patricia Arquette, Nicolas Cage

Sirens screaming and lights flashing, a New York City ambulance speeds through the night. Its drivers are paramedics working the graveyard shift-men who come face-to-face with the dead and the dying on a daily basis. Burnt out from one too many nights on the job, they are nearly as broken as the bodies they haul through the streets. What keeps them going is their caustic sense of comedy, and an acrid view of a world Read more

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Grade: F Nicolas Cage is an ambulance driver on the edge of insanity in Bringing out the Dead, a movie that not only has a deceiving title, it has the most deceiving plots of all: No plot. Read the full movie review

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