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Heat (1995) -- A Los Angeles crime saga, "Heat" focuses on the lives of two men on opposite sides of the law - one a detective; the other a thief.
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Overview

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Director:

Michael Mann

Writer (WGA):

Michael Mann (written by)

Contact:

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Release Date:

15 December 1995 (USA) more

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller more

Tagline:

A Los Angeles crime saga.

Plot:

A Los Angeles crime saga, "Heat" focuses on the lives of two men on opposite sides of the law - one a detective; the other a thief. full summary | full synopsis

Awards:

6 nominations more

NewsDesk:
(161 articles)

Blu-Ray Review: Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’ a Modern Masterpiece
 (From HollywoodChicago.com. 11 November 2009, 1:23 PM, PST)

Heat and Logan’s Run Blu-ray Reviews
 (From Collider.com. 10 November 2009, 10:26 PM, PST)

User Comments:

Masterful on all counts more (726 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Additional Details

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

171 min | USA:188 min (original pre-aired NBC version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS


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Trivia:

Michael Mann made the movie as tribute to a detective friend of his in Chicago who obsessively tracked and killed a thief (named Neil McCauley) he had once met under non-violent circumstances. more

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Continuity: When Vincent returns home before seeing his wife putting on makeup, Vincent looks at the dirty dishes in the sink, where we see a dirty plate in the left sink, and a wok with dirty dishes in it in the right sink. After Vincent comes back downstairs ("Okay, where are YOU goin'?), there are no dishes in the left sink and the dishes that were inside the wok in the right sink are gone. more

Quotes:

[first lines]
Construction Clerk: Check, charge, or cash?
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Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Ed: Babysitting (#3.19)" (2003) more

Soundtrack:

Gringatoio Demento more


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Were Pacino and Deniro ever in the same scene together?
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226 out of 266 people found the following comment useful.
Masterful on all counts, 30 November 2004
10/10
Author: LeightWinst from Aberdare, Wales

For some reason I cannot stop thinking about this film lately.

You know that feeling of having seen it about 3 or 4 times in the last 12 months is not enough? That's what I feel at the moment.

I rate it as Mann's best. It's his most kinetic,vibrant(for a film mostly shot in steely blue),agonising,stirring,brash,violent and brilliance in such a simple story.

What games did you play as a young kid? Cops and robbers.Good guy.Bad guy.

We all know De Niro and Pacino could have been either main part,but can you imagine it any other way round. Pacino doing ice cool calm? De Niro the manic outbursts,arms flailing? It wouldn't work. We know these men now.We know neither will stop at what they do.And yet there is no way either would stop the other.Unless they had too. Which leads us too the characters. All of them.

This is an extended family where you feel you know all of them without knowing anything at all. The cops are similar to the robbers and vice-versa. Perhaps Mann is telling us were all the same.Except in what we do.Every speaking part holds substance in this movie, and the support cast is astonishing when you actually read the caliber of who appeared in this film.Tom Sizmore, Val Kilmer,Ashley Judd,Ted Levine,Wes Studi,Hank Azaria,William Fitchner,Henry Rollins,Dennis Haysbert,Tom Noonan. And Natalie Portman, for chrissake! Try getting that cast again.

A real 10/10 film. And that Moby song at the end(God moving over the face of waters) gets me every time.

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