Synopsis
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
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Cast
- Warren BeattyDick Tracy
- MadonnaBreathless Mahoney
- Al PacinoBig Boy Caprice
- Glenne HeadlyTess Trueheart
- Charlie KorsmoKid
- Mandy Patinkin88 Keys
- Seymour CasselSam Catchem
- James KeanePat Patton
- Charles DurningChief Brandon
- William ForsytheFlattop
Recommendations
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Chicago Sun-Times
Warren Beatty's production of Dick Tracy approaches the material with the same fetishistic glee I felt when I was reading the strip. - 90
Time Out
A spectacular movie whose technical achievements - notably the sharp editing - will surely provide a gauge by which subsequent comic strip films are judged. - 80
The New York Times
Dick Tracy has just about everything required of an extravaganza: a smashing cast, some great Stephen Sondheim songs, all of the technical wizardry that money can buy (plus the knowledge of how and when to use it), and a screenplay (credited to Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.) that observes the fine line separating true comedy from lesser camp. - 80
Newsweek
Dick Tracy is a class act: simple, stylish, sophisticated, sweet. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Surprisingly sweet and good-natured, Dick Tracy is a highly stylized piece of fluff that's easier to digest than the ponderous pretensions of the equally over-hyped Batman. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Beatty and his team of collaborators have heightened the vibrantly tawdry urban night world of Chester Gould’s classic comic strip. - 50
Chicago Reader
Too much of the story is unfelt and mechanical—the grimly humorless Tracy (Beatty) is never very convincing as an object of desire or admiration. - 50
Slate
Beatty made a film with visionary elements but without a guiding vision.
