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Overview
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Release Date:
15 June 1990 (USA)
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Tagline:
I'm on my way.
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars.
Another 5 wins
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26 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(45 articles)
Birthday Suit (With Bright Yellow Trench)
(From FilmExperience. 20 November 2009, 7:08 AM, PST)
Comic-Con Founder Sheldon Dorf Dies at 76
(From The Wrap. 12 November 2009, 8:04 AM, PST)
(From FilmExperience. 20 November 2009, 7:08 AM, PST)
Comic-Con Founder Sheldon Dorf Dies at 76
(From The Wrap. 12 November 2009, 8:04 AM, PST)
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All those colors
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Warren Beatty | ... | Dick Tracy |
 | Charlie Korsmo | ... | Kid |
 | Michael Donovan O'Donnell | ... | McGillicuddy |
 | Jim Wilkey | ... | Stooge |
| Stig Eldred | ... | Shoulders |
| Neil Summers | ... | The Rodent |
 | Chuck Hicks | ... | The Brow |
| Lawrence Steven Meyers | ... | Little Face |
 | William Forsythe | ... | Flattop |
| Ed O'Ross | ... | Itchy |
 | Glenne Headly | ... | Tess Trueheart |
| Marvelee Cariaga | ... | Soprano |
| Michael Gallup | ... | Baritone |
 | Seymour Cassel | ... | Sam Catchem |
 | James Keane | ... | Pat Patton |
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Runtime:
103 min | Finland:101 min | Germany:101 min | USA:105 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
Netherlands:12 |
Iceland:10 |
Iceland:12 (video rating) |
Norway:10 |
Portugal:M/12 |
West Germany:12 (f) |
Brazil:12 |
Canada:PG (Canadian Home Video rating) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-12 |
France:U |
Peru:14 |
Spain:T |
Sweden:11 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG (#30562) |
Singapore:PG |
Canada:A (Nova Scotia)
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As a fan of the comic strip, Warren Beatty was initially offered the director's job. He signed on only if he could play Tracy himself. The producers, having trouble casting the lead role, happily complied with his wish.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Big Boy Caprice has all the mob bosses together, Itchy stands behind him. In a close-up, Itchy scratches his neck with his right hand. But then it cuts back to Big Boy and Itchy has his right hand at his side.
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Radio Announcer: Gangland enforcers broke the arms of an elderly newsdealer this afternoon when he refused to share his week's receipts with them. Stacks of newspapers were tossed in the gutter as the thugs wrecked the business and made their getaway. Lunchtime crowds were paralyzed by the suddenness of the crime. Not a hand was raised in protest.
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Radio Announcer: Gangland enforcers broke the arms of an elderly newsdealer this afternoon when he refused to share his week's receipts with them. Stacks of newspapers were tossed in the gutter as the thugs wrecked the business and made their getaway. Lunchtime crowds were paralyzed by the suddenness of the crime. Not a hand was raised in protest.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "I Love the '90s: Part Deux" (2005)
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Soundtrack:
What Can You Lose
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Do any of the villains live?more
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If Dick Tracy was in black and white, the pope wouldn't be religious. Giving a new sense to the concept of color in a movie, we are offered an unique experience throughout a comic-strip world, and it's one of the few movies which succeeded in doing so, thanks to a serious script, good direction, great performances (Al Pacino is astonishing) and most importantly a powerful mix of cinematography, art direction and costume design. Using only primary colors, the experience is quite different from anything we have seen before. And there is also a quite successful hommage to all the gangster-movie genre, pratically extinct from modern cinema. Overall, I see this movie as a fresh attempt and a touch of originality to a cinema which relies more and more on the old and already-seen formulas. 7 out of 10.