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Overview
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Michael Mann (written by)
Release Date:
15 December 1995 (USA) more
Tagline:
A Los Angeles crime saga.
Plot:
A Los Angeles crime saga, "Heat" focuses on the lives of two men on opposite sides of the law - one a detective; the other a thief. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
6 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(163 articles)
Hollywood and Its Antecedents: Michael Mann's "The Last of the Mohicans"
(From The Auteurs. 14 November 2009, 5:30 PM, PST)
DVD review: Public Enemies
(From The Guardian - Film News. 13 November 2009, 7:34 AM, PST)
User Comments:
Heat is truly epic, absolutely breathtaking more (726 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence and language.
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Runtime:
171 min | USA:188 min (original pre-aired NBC version)
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Singapore:NC-16 (DVD rating) | Singapore:R(A) | Iceland:16 | USA:R (certificate #34160) | Belgium:16 | Philippines:R-18 | Brazil:14 | UK:18 (original rating) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Canada:18A | Chile:14 | Denmark:16 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Germany:16 (bw) | Hong Kong:IIB | Ireland:15 (re-rating) (2005) | Ireland:18 | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:18 | Portugal:M/16 | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15
Filming Locations:
444 S. Flower Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA more
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Trivia:
Val Kilmer filmed some of his sequences concurrently with Batman Forever (1995). more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Chris is at Neil's place "sleeping it off" he lights a cigarette. There is smoke in view before he lights it. more
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[first lines]
Construction Clerk:
Check, charge, or cash?
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Featured in Shooting the Police: Cops on Film (2006) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
The Thrill Is Gone more
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What happened to Chris Shiherlis at the end of the movie?How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?
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One of the most amazing things about Heat is the scale of the film; it is nearly three hours long and packed to bursting with mind-blowing visuals. It seems one of Michael Mann's main priorities was to make a film with a dreamlike feel to it, to portray LA as a dusty oil-painting on which complex characters could play out their lives. One of the main themes is the similarity of the career criminal and the street-wise cop. It is fascinating to find yourself really feeling for DeNiro's tragic bank-robber, a man of philosophical merit who realises he's stuck in a life of crime he doesn't want to lead. Pacino's cop is less easy to sympathise with, but he too leads an in-escapable life of guns and crime. What really stands out is the climax. On the whole, Heat has to be the best cops n' robbers film ever made, indeed, one of the best films. An epic, wonderful, sad, adrenaline-fuelled exercise in scale and grandeur.