CARLITO'S WAY, SEQUEL TO SCARFACE

CARLITO'S WAY

Genre: Crime, Drama, Gangsters, Drugs, Law, Murder, Love, Betrayal, Courtroom, Revenge, Prison, Tragedy, Police,

Plot: Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy (Sean Penn), himself back in trouble as a result of old-world codes of honor and misguided loyalties.

It all takes place in 1975 Manhattan, in and around a nightclub Carlito manages, so there's plenty of classic disco music pulsing on the soundtrack. John Leguizamo plays one of the younger generation of hoodlums out to prove something. Viggo Mortensen and Luis Guzmán star as a couple of Carlito’s buddies from the old days. Brian De Palma, who directed Pacino a decade earlier in SCARFACE, makes this seem almost like that film’s sequel. As expected, there's plenty of elaborate tracking shots and suspenseful set pieces.


It’s adapted from two novels by New York Supreme Court Judge Edwin Torres based on his childhood in East Harlem.