Heat

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Call Number: DVD Drama Heat
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.
Special features: Theatrical trailers.
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Jon Voight.
Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's.
DVD 5, region 1, widescreen (letterbox, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, dual-layer.

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Eh submitted by klickitat on August 9, 2013, 6:30pm Okay, I will admit I watched this because it was referenced on the fourth season of Breaking Bad and I was curious. It's a pretty slow burn but it's decent. DeNiro is solid as ever, but Pacino's hammy performance is pain-ful. Bitter that my pet theory re: Natalie Portman's character wasn't true.

Best Ensemble Cast 1995 submitted by shumoon on June 26, 2015, 6:06pm Al Pacino
Robert DeNiro
Val Kilmer
Ashley Judd
Jon Voight
Amy Brenneman
Danny Trejo
Tone Loc
William Fichtner
Mykelti Williamson
Tom Sizemore
Dennis Haysbert
Hank Azaria
Natalie Portman
Henry Rollins
Jeremy Piven

An amazing number of fine actors who worked under director Michael Mann. The sound of the film is amazing too.

Everything that can happen, does happen submitted by Morty on May 23, 2019, 9:08am From a plot structure standpoint, Heat is about 5 violent men and their families. If you haven't already seen the film, consider watching it first and then reading the rest of this comment.

All 5 families are heterosexual. In 3 of them, the man and woman are married; 2 of those families include at least 1 child. Of the 2 unmarried families, 1 includes a child.

Each of the 5 men makes a choice, usually but not always at a moment of crisis, to put his family first or not.

At the end of the story, only 2 of the men are still alive. One put his family first; the other didn't. The man who put his family first lives because of that choice; because, at a time of crisis, he chooses to put his family first. The other, who abandons his family at a time of crisis, is the chance victor in a shootout.

Of the 3 men who have died by the end of the story, 2 did not put their families first. One of those two decides, at a time of crisis and emotional turmoil, that vengeance is more important than staying with the woman he says he loves and getting her to a safe place first. The other man who dies decides calmly that his own love of violence is more important than his continued life with his wife and child.

The third man who dies betrays his friends to try to save his wife, but ends up being badly beaten and then killed at his own request by one of those friends.

So with respect to life and death, and putting family first (or not), everything that can happen, does happen.