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The Departed
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2008
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg & Jack Nicholson | |
Performer: | Vera Farmiga, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone & Alec Baldwin | |
Directed by | Martin Scorsese | |
Edited by | Thelma Schoonmaker | |
Screenwriting by | William Monahan, Siu Fai Mak & Felix Chong | |
Composition by | Howard Shore | |
Produced by | Jennifer Aniston, Brad Grey, Brad Pitt & Graham King | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Ballhaus |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2006 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan
Academy Awards 2006 -
Best Director: Martin Scorsese
Academy Awards 2006 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
The speed and Mr. Scorsese's sureness of touch, particularly when it comes to carving up space with the camera, keep the plot's hall of mirrors from becoming a distraction.
New York Times
Martin Scorsese finally snagged a best director Oscar for the twisty, star-studded and very rewatchable crime thriller with Matt Damon as a mob mole...
USA Today
Ranked #1 in Film Comment's 20 Best Films Of 2006.
Film Comment
Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Films Of The Year -- Scorsese's got the best of men at the tops of their games. THE DEPARTED is this year's meatiest movie diversion.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
As ingenious as it is artificial.
Full Review
The Age (Australia)
Rating: 4/4 --
Like taking a master class in filmmaking and ensemble acting.
Full Review
The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
THE DEPARTED is splattered with moments of pure, dead-eyed, blood-soaked Scorsesean violence....Nicholson provides a menace that's half silky, half seedy. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent, bruised, and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film, INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob member and a mob member infiltrating the police force. Scorsese transfers the action to Boston, positioning Leonardo Di Caprio as undercover cop William Costigan and Matt Damon as undercover mobster Colin Sullivan. While Costigan and Sullivan get into plenty of nail-biting situations that almost reveal their true identities, Scorsese gradually unravels his strong supporting cast, including Jack Nicholson as Sullivan's mob boss, Frank Costello; Ray Winstone as Costello's meat-headed muscle; Mark Wahlberg as a hot-headed police sergeant; and Vera Farmiga as a love interest for both Damon and DiCaprio's characters.
THE DEPARTED finds Scorsese generously dipping his toes back into waters that will be warmly familiar to his biggest fans. Rolling Stones songs pepper the soundtrack, recalling the remarkable "Jumpin' Jack Flash" sequence in MEAN STREETS; bullets and blood punctuate every key scene, bringing TAXI DRIVER's explosive finale to mind; and the mobster-themed storyline is a thrilling return to GOODFELLAS territory. Nicholson and Winstone provide acting master-classes every time they appear, neatly complementing the blossoming talents of DiCaprio, Damon, and Wahlberg, while further veteran support comes in small roles for Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin. Scorsese is often criticized for affording precious little screen time to female characters, and THE DEPARTED won't quell those dissenting voices, although Farmiga's character proves to be more than a match for DiCaprio and Damon's posturings. But Scorsese followers who balked at his diversions into documentary filmmaking (NO DIRECTION HOME) and period epics (THE AVIATOR) will be delighted to find raw male machismo puncturing the screen once again in this frenetic entry into his celebrated oeuvre.
THE DEPARTED finds Scorsese generously dipping his toes back into waters that will be warmly familiar to his biggest fans. Rolling Stones songs pepper the soundtrack, recalling the remarkable "Jumpin' Jack Flash" sequence in MEAN STREETS; bullets and blood punctuate every key scene, bringing TAXI DRIVER's explosive finale to mind; and the mobster-themed storyline is a thrilling return to GOODFELLAS territory. Nicholson and Winstone provide acting master-classes every time they appear, neatly complementing the blossoming talents of DiCaprio, Damon, and Wahlberg, while further veteran support comes in small roles for Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin. Scorsese is often criticized for affording precious little screen time to female characters, and THE DEPARTED won't quell those dissenting voices, although Farmiga's character proves to be more than a match for DiCaprio and Damon's posturings. But Scorsese followers who balked at his diversions into documentary filmmaking (NO DIRECTION HOME) and period epics (THE AVIATOR) will be delighted to find raw male machismo puncturing the screen once again in this frenetic entry into his celebrated oeuvre.
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