Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 English language motion picture. It is a dark drama about paramedics shot mostly at night in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, a neighborhood in New York City, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, and Tom Sizemore as paramedics, as well as Patricia Arquette. The movie is based on a novel by Joe Connelly, a former New York City medic.
Frank Pierce is a paramedic working Gotham's Hell's Kitchen. He's become burned out and haunted by visions of the people he's tried to save. Written by Michael Arndt
An Easter story. Frank is a Manhattan medic, working graveyard in a two-man ambulance team. He's burned out, exhausted, seeing ghosts, especially a young woman he failed to save six months' before, and no longer able to save people: he brings in the dead. We follow him for three nights, each with a different partner: Larry, who thinks about dinner, Marcus, who looks to Jesus, and Tom, who wallops people when work is slow. Frank befriends the daughter of a heart victim he brings in; she's Mary, an ex-junkie, angry at her father but now hoping he'll live. Frank tries to get fired, tries to quit, and keeps coming back, to work and to Mary, in need of his own rebirth. Written by
48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own. Written by Erwin van Moll
Martin Scorsese torna alla 'sua' New York, buia e disperata, piena di poveri e disgregati, di violenza metropolitana e di strade pericolose e senza speranza. Tratto da un libro di Joe Connelly, il film racconta di tre notti nella vita di Frank Pierce, autista notturno d'ambulanza in un Pronto Soccorso ospedaliero piuttosto drammatico e violento. Una fauna notturna di emarginati, incidentati, folli, alcolizzati e criminali, tutti da curare e da salvare. Written by rosebud6
