Scarface

4.67
    Scarface
    1983

    Synopsis

    After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

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    Cast

    • Al PacinoAntonio 'Tony' Montana
    • Steven BauerManolo 'Manny' Ray
    • Michelle PfeifferElvira
    • Mary Elizabeth MastrantonioGina Montana
    • Robert LoggiaFrank Lopez
    • Miriam ColonMama Montana
    • F. Murray AbrahamOmar
    • Paul ShenarAlejandro Sosa
    • Harris YulinBernstein
    • Ángel SalazarChi Chi

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Scarface is one of those special movies, like "The Godfather," that is willing to take a flawed, evil man and allow him to be human.
    • 100

      Empire

      Perfomances are excellent, and despite its moralistic conclusion, the film has since become de rigueur viewing for crack barons, who know a good shoot-em-up when they see one.
    • 100

      TV Guide Magazine

      A beautiful, at times poetic exercise in excess from Brian De Palma.
    • 90

      The New York Times

      Scarface is the most stylish and provocative - and maybe the most vicious - serious film about the American underworld since Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather."
    • 80

      Time

      It is a serious, often hilarious peek under the rock where nightmares strut in $800 suits and Armageddon lies around the next twist of treason.
    • 80

      Variety

      Scarface is a grandiose modern morality play, excessive, broad and operatic at times.
    • 63

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      Scarface is a B- movie with singularly silly psychological pretensions: its neo-primitivism is to the complex moral cosmos of Francis Coppola's "Godfather" saga as Disney is to Dickens. [09 Dec 1983]
    • 25

      Boston Globe

      It plays like a crude "Godfather" parody, the sort that might amuse as a 10-minute sketch on "Saturday Night Live," but curdles and collapses as a 143-minute film. [09 Dec 1983]

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