Carlito's Way (HD DVD) - Drama HD DVDs (1993) Starring Al Pacino & Sean Penn; Directed by Brian De Palma; Universal Studios : OLDIES.com

HD DVD Features:

Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 2.35

Audio:

Dolby Digital True HD 5.1 Surround - English
Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 Surround - English, French
Subtitles - English (SDH), French - Optional

Additional Release Material:

Deleted Scenes
Featurette - 1. BRIAN DE PALMA ON CARLITO'S WAY
2. Original Promotional Featurette
Making Of
Trailer - Theatrical Trailer

Text/Photo Galleries:

Photo Gallery
Poster Gallery

Entertainment Reviews:

New York Times - 11/10/1993

"...Pacino brings vast entertainment value to [the film]....[Penn gives a] strange, jarringly intense performance..."

Sight and Sound - 02/01/1994

"...A fierce Pacino performance...and a trio of big action sequences as exciting as anything seen on screen..."

Variety - 11/15/1993

"...Rich with irony and keen in its attention to detail. Handsomely made, expertly directed and colorfully acted....Brian De Palma is in top form with CARLITO'S WAY..."

Entertainment Weekly - 11/12/1993

"...A smoother piece of filmmaking than SCARFACE....It's fun to see Sean Penn ham it up again....His energetic performance keeps you watching..."

Chicago Sun-Times - 11/12/1993

"...Brian De Palma in his best films is a muscular director who relishes over-the-top behavior, and here he paints a gallery of colorful gangsters and lowlifes..."

Total Film - 10/01/2000

"...Pacino is the sexiest he's ever been as the Puerto Rican crook, but it's Penn who really steals the show..."

USA Today - 03/16/2004

"Penn's spectacularly flashy supporting role marked his best work in a decade."

Product Description:

Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy (Sean Penn). All he wants is to keep his nose clean and earn enough money to start a business in the Bahamas--and maybe rekindle romance with his old flame, played by Penelope Ann Miller. Instead he finds himself back in trouble as a result of old-world codes of honor and misguided loyalties. It all takes place in 1975 Manhattan, in and around a nightclub Carlito manages, so there's plenty of classic disco music pulsing on the soundtrack. John Leguizamo plays one of the younger generation of hoodlums out to prove something. Viggo Mortensen and Luis Guzmán star as a couple of Carlito's buddies from the old days. Brian De Palma, who directed Pacino a decade earlier in SCARFACE, makes this seem almost like that film's sequel. As expected, there's plenty of elaborate tracking shots and suspenseful set pieces, most memorably a pulse-pounding chase through Grand Central Station. It's adapted from two novels by New York Supreme Court Judge Edwin Torres based on his childhood in East Harlem.

Plot Synopsis:

Drug kingpin Carlito Brigante vows to go straight when he is released from prison. As a host of vengeful former cronies and young thugs out to prove themselves come after him, somehow he must find a way to hold on to his newfound integrity.

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Cast and Crew:

Starring		Al Pacino & Sean Penn
Directed by		Brian De Palma
Produced by		Martin Bregman, Michael Scott Bregman & Willi Baer
Screenwriting by		David Koepp
Performer		Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo, Ingrid Rogers, Luis Guzmán, James Rebhorn, Joseph Siravo, Viggo Mortensen, Richard Foronjy, Jorge Porcel, Frank Minucci & Adrian Pasdar