Bringing Out the Dead

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.

• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Genre:Drama / Thriller
• Runtime:116 minutes

Cast

Nicolas Cage : Frank Pierce
Patricia Arquette: Mary Burke
John Goodman : Larry
Ving Rhames : Marcus
Tom Sizemore : Tom Wolls

Frank Pierce (Cage) is a paramedic working the graveyard shift in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, a neighborhood in New York City, during the early 1990s. It takes place over the course of three nights, each night pairing Pierce with a different partner (Goodman, Rhames, and Sizemore).

Complaining of burnout, 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 (Arquette), the daughter of a heart attack victim whom he had previously saved, and who visits her 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, after sleeping with Mary and carrying out a mercy killing of her father. Read more

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