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Carlito’s Way <\/strong><\/em>(1993)<\/p>\n Director:\u00a0 Brian De Palma<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: David Koepp; <\/strong>based on CARLITO’S WAY<\/a> and AFTER HOURS<\/a> by Edwin Torres\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Al Pacino, Sean Penn<\/strong>, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo, Ingrid Rogers, Luis Guzm\u00e1n, James Rebhorn, Richard Foronjy, Frank Minucci, Adrian Pasdar, John Ortiz, Al Israel, Rick Aviles, Jaime S\u00e1nchez \u00a0<\/strong>and Viggo Mortensen.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline:\u00a0 In his world, you got to shoot your way out. He wanted out. He’d do anything to get there.<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The year is 1975.\u00a0 When Carlito Brigante gets released from prison after serving just five years of a thirty year stretch, he is determined to leave a life of crime behind.\u00a0 Carlito hopes to get back with his ex-girlfriend Gail.\u00a0 Once he has the cash, they’ll retire to the Caribbean.<\/p>\n How hard should it be to walk the straight and narrow?<\/p>\n Carlito’s cousin, Guajiro, asks Carlito to accompany him on a drug deal. Guajiro just wants Carlito there for moral support.\u00a0 It will be an easy exchange.\u00a0 Of course things go south.\u00a0 Guajiro is killed.\u00a0 Carlito shoots his way out with the cash from the drug deal.<\/p>\n Carlito’s buddy Dave Kleinfeld, is the lawyer who used a legal technicality to get Carlito out of prison.\u00a0 Now Dave wants Carlito’s help with some thing not exactly legal.\u00a0 How can Carlito turn him down?<\/p>\n Plus Benny Blanco, a young hotshot gangster wanna-be wants to go into “business” with Carlito.\u00a0 Carlito turns Benny down repeatedly.<\/p>\n Carlito’s dream of a life free of crime in paradise with Gail is put at risk with every move he makes.<\/p>\n Will Carlito’s way become a dream or nightmare?<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Carlito’s Way<\/em> is based on two novels (CARLITO’S WAY<\/a> and AFTER HOURS<\/a>) by Edwin Torres.\u00a0 Torres also wrote the novel Q&A which was the basis for the movie of the same name.\u00a0 Torres, in addition to being a novelist, was a New York State Supreme Court Judge.<\/p>\n Carlito’s Way<\/em> is based on two novels.\u00a0 Most of the film comes from the second book, AFTER HOURS.\u00a0 The title of the first novel was kept as the title of the movie, mostly to void confusion with Martin Scorsese’s movie After Hours<\/em>.<\/p>\n When folks think of Al Pacino’s greatest films, they think Godfather I<\/em> & II, Heat<\/em> and Dog Day<\/em> Afternoon<\/em>.\u00a0 Carlito’s Way<\/em> should be on that list.<\/p>\n Carlito’s Way (1993) <\/strong><\/em>rates 5 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n Carlito’s Way (1993) Director:\u00a0 Brian De Palma Screenplay: David Koepp; based on CARLITO’S WAY and AFTER HOURS by Edwin Torres\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39194,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39193\/revisions\/39194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\")
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