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Scarface (1983) 8.3
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8.3/10 from 318,844 users
Metascore: 65/100
Reviews: 750 user | 127 critic | 9 from Metacritic.com In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel while succumbing to greed. Director:Brian De PalmaWriter:Oliver Stone (screenplay) |
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Cast
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| Al Pacino | ... | ||
| Steven Bauer | ... | ||
| Michelle Pfeiffer | ... | ||
| Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | ... | ||
| Robert Loggia | ... | ||
| Miriam Colon | ... | ||
| F. Murray Abraham | ... | ||
| Paul Shenar | ... | ||
| Harris Yulin | ... | ||
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Ángel Salazar | ... | |
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Arnaldo Santana | ... | |
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Michael P. Moran | ... | |
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Al Israel | ... | |
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When Fidel Castro opens the harbor at Mariel, Cuba, he sends 125,000 Cuban refugees to reunite with their relatives in the United States. Among all the refugees, there is one who wants it all, his name is Tony Montana. Tony and his friend Manny arrive in the United States and start in small time jobs. Soon, they are hired by Omar Suarez to pay money to a group of Colombians. When the deal goes wrong, Tony and Manny leave with the money and succeed in their job. Soon Tony meets with drug kingpin Frank Lopez and falls for his boss's girl, Elvira. Pretty soon Tony will know that those who want it all, do not last forever; that is the price of power. The world will know Montana by one name....SCARFACE. Written by Emphinix
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Country:
USARelease Date:
9 December 1983 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Caracortada See more »Box Office
Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$242,821 (USA) (19 September 2003)Gross:
$656,161 (USA) (26 September 2003)Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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Fidel Castro: ...al esfuerzo y al heroísmo de una revolución... ¡No los queremos! ¡No los necesitamos!
[translated... to the effort and heroism of a revolution... We don't want them! We don't need them!]
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Performed by Maria Conchita Alonso (as Maria Conchita)
Music by Giorgio Moroder
Lyrics by Maria Conchita Alonso (as Maria Conchita)
Courtesy of A&M Records
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Trivia
Kay Lenz and Kristy McNichol both reportedly wanted the role of Elvira, but Brian De Palma turned them down. See more »Goofs
When Hector jumps out of the hotel and onto the landing, a bit of the ground moves, revealing it to be a crash mat. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Fidel Castro: ...al esfuerzo y al heroísmo de una revolución... ¡No los queremos! ¡No los necesitamos!
[translated... to the effort and heroism of a revolution... We don't want them! We don't need them!]
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Crazy Credits
In the opening we see a crawl text (with narrator) that reads: "In May of 1980, Fidel Castro in an effort to normalize relations with the Carter Administration opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba with the apparent intention of letting some of his people join their relatives in the United States. Within seventy-two hours, 3,000 U.S. boats were headed for Cuba. In the next few weeks, it became evident that Castro was forcing the boat owners to carry back with them not only their relatives but the dregs of his jail population. By the time the port was closed 125,000 'Marielitos' had landed in Florida. An estimated 25,000 had criminal records. This is the story of that minority those they call 'Los Bandidos'." See more »Soundtracks
"Vamos a Bailar"Performed by Maria Conchita Alonso (as Maria Conchita)
Music by Giorgio Moroder
Lyrics by Maria Conchita Alonso (as Maria Conchita)
Courtesy of A&M Records
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This is one of my all time favorites.
If the movie has a flaw, it's that it comes at you like a raging bull. It doesn't so much engage the viewer as assault him. ''Scarface'' is as voracious and unyielding a production as Tony Montana himself. Nothing is left to the viewer's imagination.
Moroder's languorous synthpop fits the action to a tee. Like the chorus in a Greek tragedy, it wails and gnashes, broods and tugs, a constant reminder of Tony's inexorable fate.
Not so much a tale of caution as a disaster in progress, ''Scarface'' rips across the screen with the unstoppable force of a runaway train.