Scarface (Full Screen Anniversary Edition)

Scarface (Full Screen Anniversary Edition) Review

For Mature Audiences only! Not for children to see. This version runs 2 hrs. 49 mins. rated "R".
Not since The Godfather (Coppola Restoration) [Blu-ray] (1972) and The Godfather Part II (Coppola Restoration) [Blu-ray] (1974) (which also starred Al Pacino) has a motion picture shocked American audiences with its violence. Directed by Brian De Palma,Body Double (1984), this is a remake of Scarface (Universal Cinema Classics) (1932).
Antonio Montana arrives from Cuba in 1980 wanting to become powerful in his own way in Florida. He starts a riot and kills a man in tent city. With his other Cuban refugee friends, he gets further involved in cocaine deals, starts a drug cartel and becomes the most richest, notorious killer the state of Florida has ever seen.

This powerful film is known for its grotesque bloody and grueling violence and the numerous use of a certain adult curse word.

Cast includes: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Pepe Serna, F. Murray Abraham, Manuel Padilla Jr, Robert Loggia, Michelle Pfeiffer, Miriam Colon, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Richard Belzer, Angel Salazar, Arnaldo Santana, Paul Espel, Mark Margolis.
Manuel Padilla Jr had a mustache in this film. He was in the shower scene.

This film did not receive any Academy Award nominations. 1983 was the year we saw Terms of Endearment, The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition), Tender Mercies, Fanny and Alexander (The Theatrical Version) - Criterion Collection.
The Miami Vice - Season One tv series debuts the next year.

Michelle Pfeiffer has a nice line during the sunken-bathtub scene, I think we can all agree with.
Oliver Stone wrote the screenplay.

I was not able to review the Bonus Features of Disc 2. However, their is a featurette where to can see the difference between the theatrical version and the edited television version.
DVD includes options of English, Spanish, French. Option of captions in English for hearing-impaired. Option of subtitles: Spanish and French.

Scarface (Full Screen Anniversary Edition) Overview

Pacino plays a ruthless Cuban gangster involved in a cocaine empire, in this violent crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title.

Scarface (Full Screen Anniversary Edition) Specifications

This sprawling epic of bloodshed and excess, Brian De Palma's update of the classic 1932 crime drama by Howard Hawks, sparked controversy over its outrageous violence when released in 1983. Scarface is a wretched, fascinating car wreck of a movie, starring Al Pacino as a Cuban refugee who rises to the top of Miami's cocaine-driven underworld, only to fall hard into his own deadly trap of addiction and inevitable assassination. Scripted by Oliver Stone and running nearly three hours, it's the kind of film that can simultaneously disgust and amaze you (critic Pauline Kael wrote "this may be the only action picture that turns into an allegory of impotence"), with vivid supporting roles for Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Robert Loggia. --Jeff Shannon

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