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A tense and violent update of the 1932 Howard Hughes gangster classic with the setting changed from Chicago to Miami. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire for his kid sister (played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) prove his undoing.

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ProducerMartin Bregman

EAN5050582202090

eBay Product ID (ePID)30046901

Product Key Features

ActorAl Pacino, Robert Loggia, Paul Shenar, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, F. Murray Abraham, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Film/TV TitleScarface

DirectorBrian De Palma

LanguageEnglish

Run Time164 Mins

Release Year2004

FormatDVD

FeaturesSpecial Edition\Deleted Scenes\The Rebirth Of Scarface\Acting Scarface\Creating Scarface\Scarface The TV Version\Theatrical Trailer\Teaser Trailer\Def Jam Presents Origins Of A Hip Hop Classic

GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerGiorgio Moroder

Additional InformationBrian De Palma's blood-and-sun-drenched saga of a Cuban deportee's rise to the top of Miami's cocaine business has become something of a popular classic since its release; it's been referenced in rap songs and subsequent gangster movies and quoted the world over. Despite this lovefest with the dialogue, the film's brutal violence and lack of positive characters still make it controversial and disliked by certain critics. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire for his kid sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) prove his undoing. Michelle Pfeiffer plays Tony's neglected coke-addicted trophy wife, and Steven Bauer is his concerned friend. F. Murray Abraham, Robert Loggia, and Paul Shenar are some of Tony's sleazy business partners and potential killers. Oliver Stone wrote the expletive-packed screenplay, based on Howard Hawks's 1932 version--which was ostensibly about Al Capone and starred Paul Muni and George Raft. The synth-heavy Giorgio Moroder score expertly evokes the drug-fuelled decadence of 1980s Miami, and De Palma provides several of his elaborate set pieces, including a horrific showstopper in a motel room with a chain saw.

ReviewsVariety - ...SCARFACE is a grandiose modern morality play....[The film] possesses an engaging topicality and packs a punch..., New York Times - ...The most stylish and provocative -- and maybe the most vicious -- serious film about the American underworld since [THE GODFATHER]....Vivid and arresting.

ScreenwriterOliver Stone

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1\DTS

Movie/TV TitleScarface

Director of PhotographyJohn A. Alonzo