Top billed cast

1. 

   Nicolas Cage

   Frank Pierce

2. 

   Patricia Arquette

   Mary Burke

3. 

   John Goodman

   Larry Verber

4. 

   Ving Rhames

   Marcus

5. 

   Tom Sizemore

   Tom Wolls

6. 

   Marc Anthony

   Noel

7. 

   Mary Beth Hurt

   Nurse Constance

8. 

   Cliff Curtis

   Cy Coates

9. 

   Aida Turturro

   Nurse Crupp

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2014-06-28

Powerful and engrossing cinema from a truly great team.

Frank Pierce is a member of the Nork York paramedics, serving the Hell's Kitchen district he is witness to some terrible incidents. As he starts to crack under the pressure of the job, and getting no help from a succession of zany partners, Frank may just find solace with an ex-junkie girl who's father he brought in dying of a heart attack.

Martin Scorsese can never be accused of not being adventurous, after dabbling in Eastern spiritualism with 1997s Kundun, he returns to New York and tackles a wing of America's tortured heroes. Ba...read the rest

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7. Fractured67%
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9. Requiem for a Dream80%
10. Point Blank70%
11. Misery77%
12. Stuart: A Life Backwards74%
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$32,000,000.00

Revenue
$16,797,191.00

Keywords

• dying and death
• new york city
• coma
• based on novel or book
• ambulance
• drug addiction
• night life
• hallucination
• ambulance man
• alcoholism
• road trip
• teacher
• hospital
• drugs
• illegal prostitution
• euthanasia