Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: DVD
Brand: Touchstone
EAN: 5017188881753
Format: PAL
Label: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Region Code: 2
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 9094
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 1999

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Reuniting the "dream team" of director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter (and esteemed director in his own right) Paul Schrader--the men who brought you Taxi Driver and Raging Bull--Bringing Out the Dead provoked outrageously high expectations on its theatrical release. But when this brown-paper parcel of a film was unwrapped by critics and film-goers, the collective Christmas-morning sigh of disappointment was all but audible. Sure, there's lots of blood but where are all the guns, the wise guys cracking wise, the filmic fireworks most people expect from a Scorsese movie? But shake the wrapping a bit and out rolls a tiny, perfect parable about New York City ambulance driver Frank (Nicolas Cage) who finds grace just when he seems to have hit rock bottom.

Deprived of sleep, wired on speed of kinds, haunted by visions of a homeless girl he couldn't save, like Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle, Frank roams the neon-spackled streets despairing at the decay around him. He's as war-torn by the ravages of the 1980s (the film is set in the early 1990s, before Mayor Giuliani got tough on crime) as Travis was by Vietnam's after effects. But Frank's problem is too much empathy, not alienation, and at least he's not as crazy as his co-drivers--one addicted to food (John Goodman), one to religion (Ving Rhames) and one to drugs and violence (Tom Sizemore)--each colleague more hilarious and frightening than the last. This is a story of a man who thought he could not take it anymore, one wracked by guilt and regret, who ends up being redeemed by--it's a movie cliché, and yet it just about works here--the love of a good woman (Patricia Arquette).

Bringing Out the Dead may lack the glamorous, adolescent angst of Taxi Driver and eschew the rigorous dissection of masculinity that distinguished Raging Bull but it has its own quieter virtues and just as much visual bravura. Watching it on the small screen gives you more time to absorb its moral subtleties, its spectacular time-lapse photography and, like all great Scorsese movies, its hysterical stretches of black humour (Rhames' character's attempt to raise a seemingly dead clubber is a particular highlight). It may not be one of the director's, or even the screenwriter's, best films, but it still towers above most of the dross churned out by Hollywood every year and remains indispensable viewing for anyone serious about cinema. --Leslie Felperin

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Reuniting the "dream team" of director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter (and esteemed director in his own right) Paul Schrader--the men who brought you Taxi Driver and Raging Bull--Bringing Out the Dead provoked outrageously high expectations on its theatrical release. But when this brown-paper parcel of a film was unwrapped by critics and film-goers, the collective Christmas-morning sigh of disappointment was all but audible. Sure, there is a lot of blood but where are all the guns, the wise guys cracking wise, the filmic fireworks most people expect from a Scorsese movie? But shake the wrapping a bit and out rolls a tiny, perfect parable about New York City ambulance driver Frank (Nicolas Cage) who finds grace just when he seems to have hit rock bottom.

Deprived of sleep, wired on speed of kinds, haunted by visions of a homeless girl he couldn't save, like Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle, Frank roams the neon-spackled streets despairing at the decay around him. He's as war-torn by the ravages of the 1980s (the film is set in the early 1990s, before Mayor Giuliani got tough on crime) as Travis was by Vietnam's after effects. But Frank's problem is too much empathy, not alienation, and at least he is not as crazy as his co-drivers--one addicted to food (John Goodman), one to religion (Ving Rhames) and one to drugs and violence (Tom Sizemore)--each colleague more hilarious and frightening than the last. This is a story of a man who thought he could not take it anymore, one wracked by guilt and regret, who ends up being redeemed by--it's a movie cliché, and yet it just about works here--the love of a good woman (Patricia Arquette).

Bringing Out the Dead may lack the glamorous, adolescent angst of Taxi Driver and eschew the rigorous dissection of masculinity that distinguished Raging Bull but it has its own quieter virtues and just as much visual bravura. Watching it on the small screen gives you more time to absorb its moral subtleties, its spectacular time-lapse photography and, like all great Scorsese movies, its hysterical stretches of black humour (Rhames' character's attempt to raise a seemingly dead clubber is a particular highlight). It may not be one of the director's, or even the screenwriter's, best films, but it still towers above most of the dross churned out by Hollywood every year and remains indispensable viewing for anyone serious about cinema. --Leslie Felperin




Rating: - Strange, but in a good way, quirky and dark
We follow ambulanceman Frank (Nicholas Cage) over the course of 3 nights who's suffering from a touch of insomnia, each night he has a different partner, first Larry (John Goodman) who's pretty subdued in this role, Marcus (Ving Rhames) who shows a good comic side to himself and then finally Walls (Tom Sizemore) who ranges between a normal level headed guy to a lunatic and brings a nice bit of dark humour to the film)

It's hard to know what to call this film in a way it's a drama, but ... Read More

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Rating: - Dark and relentless with little relief
This Martin Scorsese film is another masterpiece of film making, but it's oh so bleak! Having read the novel by Joe Connelly, I knew what to expect, but it was clear that the cinema audience I originally watched it with had no idea that it would be so dark & relentless. Yet there are a few moments of absolute comedy which give a few moments relief before diving back into more bleakness.
The film follows burned out paramedic Frank Pierce, brilliantly played by Nicholas Cage, over the course ... Read More

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Rating: - artistic, gritty, interesting
Bringing Out The Dead is always treated as the redheaded stepchild of Martin Scorsese films... the one to forget. Why, I'm not sure.

Personally I found it to be artistic, gritty, interesting and (as with all Scorsese films) a great commentary on humanity. Everything from the Van Morrison soundtrack running through the background, to the cast of quirky, memorable characters made this film shine.

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Rating: - gritty,claustrophobic feel but not essential
Bringing out the dead is a scorcese film that deals with the world of paramedics and how difficult their lives can be,nic cage stars as frank who is a neurotic,insomniac who starts to get haunted by the images of those people he couldnt save.The film is set over 3 nights and shows cage with three very different partners all of whom bring the worst and best out of cage.
The movie is based on the dirty streets of new york as originally portrayed by scorceses taxi driver and the movie is dark and frantic ... Read More

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Rating: - Don't make me take my glasses off !!
This movie was excellent!! As mentioned by the other reviewers, New York City has the same grimey, dirty, dark resemblance as 'Taxi Driver', which sets the scene for the story of a burnt out paramedic who is going crazy!! All his paitents keep dying on him and he starts having visions of them coming back to haunt him.
I also enjoyed the way this film was made. Its really fast paced, there's always a sense of urgency, they keep getting called out to different incidents along the way, which brings different ... Read More

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