MOVIE · 1999

Bringing Out the Dead

DramaThriller121 min

Night after night in New York City, paramedic Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage) answers calls he dreads, haunted by the patients he couldn't save and trying unsuccessfully to get himself fired. Worn down by exhaustion, guilt, and visions that follow him from apartment buildings to emergency rooms, Frank keeps getting pulled back into the ambulance. Patricia Arquette is Mary, the daughter of a heart-attack victim whose life becomes tangled with his, while John Goodman and Ving Rhames turn up as fellow medics sharing the same brutal streets. Martin Scorsese sets the story in a city of flashing lights, sleepless blocks, and constant crisis.