Sunday, October 19, 2008

Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

originally posted on AOL Blogs, Sunday, May 21, 2006


Released October 22nd in the US.
Filmed in New York.
The story: Frank is an emotional and sensitive EMT who spends the majority of his life in an ambulance and hospital, trying to save people's lives - while he drowns his sorrows with the bottle.
One evening, Frank is called to a house where a man has had a heart attack.
Frank, along with the help of the patients' daughter - stabilizes the man.
The ambulance takes him off to the hospital and this starts a close friendship between Frank and the man's daughter.
Now, after many years of working as an EMT and seeing all the extreme things he has seen in his line of work - this job begins to get the better of Frank.
Because of all the guilt, his job has brought on to him, he is now beginning to see ghosts of the people who he feels he should have somehow been able to do more for and save the lives of.
Stars Nicolas Cage, Vign Rhames, Tom Sizemore , Marc Anthony , Cullen O Johnson , Patricia Arquette , John Goodman , Mary Beth Hurt , Cliff Curtis , Nestor Serrano
Directed by Martin Scorese
Rated R
DRAMA/THRILLER/SCIFI

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