Scarface

In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug empire while succumbing to greed.

• Director: Brian De Palma
• Genre:Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
• Runtime:170 minutes

Cast

Al Pacino : Tony Montana

Steven Bauer : Manny Ribera

Michelle Pfeiffer : Elvira Hancock

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio : Gina Montana

Robert Loggia : Frank Lopez

In May 1980, a Cuban man named Tony Montana (Al Pacino) claims asylum, in Florida, USA, and is in search of the “American Dream” after departing Cuba in the Mariel boatlift of 1980. When questioned by three tough-talking INS officials, Montana is detained on suspicion of apolitical criminal activities, in a camp called ‘Freedomtown’ with other Cubans, while the government evaluates their visa petitions. To be released after 30 days of governmental dithering and camp rumors, and be given green cards, Montana, with the help of his best friend and former Cuban Army buddy Manny Ray (Steven Bauer), kills a former aide to Fidel Castro, Emilio Rebenga (Roberto Contreras) during a riot at Freedomtown. The murder of Rebenga was requested by Frank López, a wealthy, politically astute man who deals cars and trades in cocaine, as Rebenga had tortured López’s brother to death while still in Cuba. After getting their Green Cards, Tony Montana and Manny Ray are working as dishwashers in a corner sandwich/taco shop when a López henchman, Omar Suárez (F. Murray Abraham), offers Tony and Manny a job unloading marijuana.

Tony insults Suárez by turning down the job over the little money they will receive, so Suárez sets him up to pick up two kilograms of cocaine from a Colombian dealer, Hector. Tony, Manny, and two other Marielitos in his crew, Angel Fernández (Pepe Serna), and Chi Chi (Ángel Salazar) then set out to meet “Hector the Toad” (Al Israel) at a seedy motel on the boulevard in Miami Beach. While Manny and Chi Chi wait in the car on the street, Tony and Angel go up to the hotel room to meet with Hector. The meeting does not go smoothly, as Tony grows irritated with Hector, who is slow to give him the cocaine in exchange for money. Suddenly, Montana and Angel are double-crossed in a rip off move by the Colombian. To convince Tony to give over the cash, Angel is dismembered in a shower stall with a chainsaw by Hector. After Angel is dead, Tony, about to suffer the same fate, is saved by Chi Chi and Manny who arrive in the nick of time to gun down Hector’s henchmen in the hotel’s room, while Manny receives a minor bullet wound in his shoulder. Hector escapes but Tony vengefully confronts him in the street and shoots him dead in the middle of Ocean Drive, the now famous Miami South Beach boulevard. Tony and his crew then get away with both the cocaine and the money before the police arrive. Tony then impresses the money’s owner, López (Robert Loggia), with not only the return of his cash but with a gift of the coke, a prize from the botched rip off. Frank immediately hires Tony’s crew into his criminal hierarchy, representative of a Cuban mafia. But during this initial get together Tony also meets Lopez’s lady, the blond and beautiful Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer), who will eventually become the source of tension between the two men. Thus, Montana begins his rise through the ranks of the Miami cocaine underworld. Read more

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