Scarface overview

Scarface

Synopsis:

Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, an exiled Cuban criminal who goes to work for Miami drug lord Robert Loggia. Montana rises to the top of Florida's crime chain, appropriating Loggia's cokehead mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer) in the process. Howard Hawks' "X Marks the Spot" motif in depicting the story line's many murders is dispensed with in the 1983 Scarface; instead, we are inundated with blood by the bucketful, especially in the now-infamous buzz saw scene. One carry-over from the original Scarface is Tony Montana's incestuous yearnings for his sister Gina (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio).


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Brian De Palma
  • Studio: Universal
  • Year: 1983
  • Run Time: 170 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: R
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Crime
  • Filmed in: Color
  • Release: 1983 12 09 (USA), 2003 09 13 (USA - Rerelease)