Bringing Out the Dead

Infobox Film
name = Bringing Out the Dead


image_size = 200px
caption = original film poster
imdb_id = 0163988
writer = Paul Schrader, Joe Connelly (novel)
producer = Barbara De Fina, Scott Rudin
director = Martin Scorsese
starring = Nicolas Cage
John Goodman
Ving Rhames
Tom Sizemore
Patricia Arquette
music = Elmer Bernstein
distributor = Paramount Pictures (USA)
Touchstone Pictures (non-USA)
released = October 22, 1999
runtime = 121 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget = $32,000,000|

"Bringing Out the Dead" is a 1999 English language film directed by Martin Scorsese, and based on the novel by Joe Connelly. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, Tom Sizemore and Patricia Arquette.

Plot

Frank Pierce (Cage), is a paramedic working the graveyard shift in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, a neighborhood in New York City, during the early-90s. It takes place over the course of three nights, each night pairing Pierce with a different partner (Goodman, Rhames, and Sizemore).

Complaining of burn out, Pierce suffers from insomnia and begins having visions of a young girl named Rose who died while under his care. Once called Father Frank for his ability to save lives, Pierce starts to fear that he will soon face another life he cannot save, and begins attempting to get fired as his visions of Rose become more frequent.

Soon, Pierce bonds with Mary, the daughter of a heart-attack victim whom he had previously saved, and who visits the father regularly at the hospital. Mary talks to Frank about her compassion toward helping others, which is shown contrasting Frank's feelings of burnout. It is through Mary that Frank is able to reconcile his feelings about Rose, and in the end, sleep.

oundtrack

Track listing

#"T.B. Sheets" - Van Morrison
#"Janie Jones" - The Clash
#"You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" - Johnny Thunders
#"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" - R.E.M.
#"I'm So Bored with the USA" - The Clash
#"Red Red Wine" - UB40
#"Nowhere to Run" - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
#"Too Many Fish in the Sea" - The Marvelettes
#"Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am a Japanese Sandman)" - The Cellos
#"Rivers of Babylon" - The Melodians
#"Combination of the Two" - Big Brother & The Holding Company
#"Bell Boy" - The Who

Notes

*The opening song on the movie is "T.B. Sheets" a lengthly blues-influenced song about a young girl who lies dying in a hospital bed, surrounded by the heavy smell of death and disease. It was written by Van Morrison and included on his 1967 album, "Blowin' Your Mind!".
*Director Martin Scorsese provides the voice of one of the ambulance dispatchers.

Laserdisc release

This motion picture, along with "Sleepy Hollow", was the final feature film released on Laserdisc

External links

*imdb title|id=0163988|title=Bringing Out the Dead
*rotten-tomatoes|id=bringing_out_the_dead|title=Bringing Out the Dead
* [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991022/REVIEWS/910220303/1023 Roger Ebert's review of the film]