Carlito's Way

Feature, USA 1993, 145 min, OV

The Puerto-Rican American drug dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is sentenced to 30 years in jail but his cunning lawyer Kleinfeld (Sean Penn) gets him out after just five. Brigante wants to get out of the Mafia milieu but his code of honor drags him ever deeper into it. Brian de Palma’s film is a superbly acted gangster thriller that can take its place alongside classics such as "The Godfather" or "Goodfellas". It vibrates with the atmosphere of the Latin Jazz bars in 1970s New York.

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