Carlito's Way

UPC: 025192046889

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Questionable for Children, Profanity]

Summary: Carlito's Way is a tale of a former hood trying to escape his former life. Al Pacino is Carlito Brigante, a high-level Puerto Rican drug dealer sprung from a three-decade jail sentence after only five years, thanks to a technicality and his sleazy, cocaine-addled lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn). Carlito renounces his previous ways and takes a job as the manager of a club that Kleinfeld has invested in, planning to save enough money so that he can eventually move to the Caribbean. But no sooner is Carlito back on the streets of New York than his old life claws at him in the form of both old partners (Luis Guzman) and vicious up-and-comers (John Leguizamo). Nevertheless, Carlito stays clean and even restarts his relationship with a dancer named Gail (Penelope Ann Miller), until he is finally led astray by Kleinfeld, who manipulates Carlito into participating in the murder of a Mafia don from whom Kleinfeld has stolen a million dollars. At that point, the race is on to see whether Carlito and Gail can escape his world for good. The film is based on two novels about Carlito written by New York State judge Edwin Torres. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi

Category: Crime

Awards: Best Supporting Actress – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Moti – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Deleted Scenes
The Making Of Carlito's Way In-Depth Interviews with the Cast and Crew Reveal Carlito's Journey from Novel to Screen

Brian DePalma On Carlito's Way Get an Insider's Perspective with the Director

Carlito's Way

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 05/18/2010

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DHMA null, DTS Digital Theater Systems, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 120 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Keith Phipps

By the early '90s, the initial controversy surrounding Brian De Palma' violent remake of Scarface had evaporated and the film had become something of a high-profile cult classic. A re-teaming of the film's director and star Al Pacino, Carlito's Way was marketed as its followup -- and it is, though not necessarily in the way most would expect. While Scarface starred Pacino as a character whose all-encompassing appetite leads him to climb higher and higher in the underworld, in Carlito's Way he plays a world-weary character seeking only to get out. In place of the drug-fueled mania of Tony Montana, Pacino uses silence and knowing looks to convey a miles-deep sadness. It's a masterful performance in a film that has much to recommend it, in particular a handful of deftly-executed set pieces, a tremendous feel for its disco-era setting, and a terrific supporting cast (Luis Guzman, John Leguizamo, and especially Sean Penn). But ultimately it's the elegiac mood of the film that stays longest in the memory, as De Palma and company escalate B-movie material into a meditation on aging and fate. Severely underrated at the time, this is a film that just looks better as the years go by. (In fact, Cahiers Du Cinema would later pronounce it the best of the decade.) ~ Keith Phipps, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Anthony Catanese  Actor 
Owen Hollander  Actor 
Elliott Santiago  Actor 
Bo Dietl  Actor 
Rick Aviles  Actor 
Caesar Cordova  Actor 
Vincent Pastore  Actor 
Rocco Sisto  Actor 
Orlando Urdaneta  Actor 
Vincent Jerosa  Actor 
John Michael Bolger  Actor 
Tony Cucci  Actor 
Paul Mazursky  Actor 
Brian Tarantina  Actor 
Steven Puente  Actor 
John Hoyt  Actor 
James Bulleit  Actor 
Michael P. Moran  Actor 
Angel Salazar  Actor 
Nelson Vasquez  Actor 
Luke Toma  Actor 
Frank Minucci  Actor 
Christopher Bregman  Actor 
John Finn  Actor 
Rene Rivera  Actor 
Jaime Tirelli  Actor 
Chuck Zito  Actor 
John Ortiz  Actor 
Gene Canfield  Actor 
Mel Gorham  Actor 
Jaime Sanchez  Actor 
Frank Ferrara  Actor 
Marc Anthony  Actor 
Joe Conzo  Actor 
Al Israel  Actor 
Jon Seda  Actor 
Michael Hadge  Actor 
Garry Blackwood  Actor 
Richard Council  Actor 
Sharmagne Leland-St. John  Actor 
Tera Tabrizi  Actor 
Bonnie Timmermann  Actor 
Brian De Palma  Director 
Martin Bregman  Producer 
Patrick Doyle  Composer (Music Score) 
Ortwin Freyermuth  Executive Producer 
David Koepp  Screenwriter 
Louis A. Stroller  Executive Producer 
Michael S. Bregman  Producer 
Willi Baer  Producer 
Al Pacino  Actor 
Sean Penn  Actor 
Penelope Ann Miller  Actor 
Luis Guzman  Actor 
John Leguizamo  Actor 
Viggo Mortensen  Actor 
Ingrid Rogers  Actor 
James Rebhorn  Actor 
Joseph Siravo  Actor 
Richard Foronjy  Actor 
Jorge Porcel  Actor 
Adrian Pasdar  Actor 

Country: USA