Bringing Out the Dead

Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, based on the novel by Joe Connelly. and starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames and Tom Sizemore. Though a flop at the box office, the film received very positive reviews from critics and was also the last North American title to be released on Laserdisc.

After a few minor calls one involving Noel, Frank and Larry respond to a shooting and he tends to one of the surviving victims. Frank notices two vials of a drug named Red Death, a new form of heroin that has started plaguing the streets of New York and caused cardiac arrest calls to skyrocket, roll out from the victims sleeve which implies it was a shooting by a rival drug gang. While in the back of the ambulance with Frank and Noel the victim goes into denial and repents his drug dealing ways but dies before they can reach the hospital.The next day Frank is paired with his second partner Marcus Rhames, an eccentric and religious man. They respond to the call of a man in a gothic club who has suffered a heart attack. Frank diagnoses that he has in fact suffering from a heroin overdose caused by Red Death. As Frank injects the man with the antidote, Marcus starts a prayer circle with the baffled clubgoers and just as his preaching climaxes the overdosed man becomes conscious again. On the way back to the hospital Frank swings by Marys apartment building to tell her that her fathers condition is improving. Frank and Marcus then respond to a call by a young Puerto Rican man whose girlfriend is giving birth to twins despite his claims they are both virgins, calling it a miracle. Frank rushes one baby to the hospital but it later dies. In a moment of desperation Frank starts drinking and Marcus soon joins in, crashing the ambulance into a parked car. ........

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