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| Category | Warner Store DVDs, Warner Theatrical Movies, Dramas Videos, Thriller, Suspense, Recommended, Essential Cinema, Detective, Thieves, Infidelity, Outlaws | | Starring | Val Kilmer, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Natalie Portman, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman | | Director | Michael Mann |
Closed Captioned; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re; Behind The Scenes "Never have anything in your life you can't walk out on in thirty seconds" is the motto of expert thief Neil McCauley (De Niro). After his next break-in, McCauley plans to retire from his outlaw life and move to New Zealand. However, Vincent Hanna (Pacino), a Los Angeles police detective, obsessively tracks McCauley's gang of thieves, who have left three security guards dead in an armored truck robbery. As the detective gets closer to tracking them down, the crooks plan another big heist, this time at a bank. Hanna soon gets a lead that helps him determine the identity of the criminal mastermind who engineered the thefts, and discovers McCauley is a man as driven and relentless as the detective himself.
Although he doesn't have enough evidence against the thief to make an arrest, Hanna convinces McCauley to join him for coffee, at which point the two engage in casual conversation and discover that their lives are remarkably similar. However, each man makes it clear he'll kill the other if necessary. Though they know the police are closing in on them, McCauley and his men risk going through with the bank job. A violent shoot-out and car chase result, but the criminals escape. Hanna continues to pursue them unceasingly, at the expense of his already-crumbling marriage. Eventually Hanna and McCauley face each other for the last time in a thrilling showdown at the Los Angeles airport.
With HEAT, director Michael Mann achieves the nearly impossible task of making three hours go by in a flash with his use of the hand-held camera for action scenes and a moody score that echoes the characters' emotions. Val Kilmer, Ashley Judd, and others play characters that are also crucial to the plot, but never distract from the central conflict between McCauley and Hanna. The acting is outstanding, the story is riveting and the action scenes are breathtaking. Both De Niro and Pacino are perfect as two men driven to sacrifice nearly everything for their respective professions. With edge-of-your-seat action and insightful drama, HEAT is a crime film at its most intense and personal. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are finally together on screen in this riveting story about an intense rivalry between expert thief Neil McCauley (De Niro) and volatile cop Vincent Hanna (Pacino). McCauley will stop at nothing to do what he does best and neither will Hanna, even though it means destroying everything around them, including the people they love. With a solid supporting cast that includes Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Ashley Judd, and Natalie Portman, HEAT is a truly epic crime story. Theatrical release: December 15, 1995.
HEAT was filmed in 65 locations in and around Los Angeles. No soundstages were used.
HEAT marks the first time that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro shared the screen. Although they both appeared in THE GODFATHER PART II, they didn't have any scenes together.
The film was originally made as L.A. TAKEDOWN for television in 1989 with an entirely different cast.
Director Michael Mann disowned the edited television version of HEAT aired by NBC.
To create a realistic character for thief Neil McCauley, Mann visited Folsom State Penitentiary to interview inmates. As McCauley, De Niro's collars were always pressed and starched perfectly, just as they would have been in prison.
Al Pacino had a clause in his contract that allowed him to make up a certain number of his own lines.
The film grossed $67.4 million domestically. Heat Quotes/Excerpts: "Maybe we should both do something else, pal."--McCauley (Robert De Niro) to Hanna (Al Pacino) over coffee
"I don't know how to do anything else."--Hanna
"Neither do I."--McCauley
"I don't much want to either."--Hanna
"Neither do I."--McCauley
"It's like you said. All I am is what I'm going after."--Hanna, to his estranged wife
"Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in 30 seconds if you see the heat around the corner."--McCauley
Heat Reviews: "...A sleek, accomplished piece of work, meticulously controlled and completely involving. The dark end of the street doesn't get much more inviting than this..."
-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "...There is absolute precision of effect here, the feeling of roles assumed instinctively..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "[With] stunning cinematography, capturing an off-kilter LA, all metallic grey and widescreen sheen."
-- Daniel Webb, Total Film "...Gobs of talent are amassed..."
-- Christine Spines, Premiere "...This spellbinder vibrates with style, substance and humor, plus voluptuous camera work..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "...[HEAT] serves to bolster the case for Michael Mann as the key American auteur of the last ten years..."
-- John Wrathall, Sight and Sound "...A film that deserves Oscars for photography, editing, sound and arguably scoring....Heat is packed with unforgettable subcharacters..." -- 4 out of 4 stars
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...[Mann's] .357 Magnum opus....Macho-intellectual chutzpah..."
-- Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly "...Stunningly made and incisively acted by a large and terrific cast....[HEAT] stands apart from other films of its type by virtue of its extraordinary rich characterizations..."
-- Todd McCarthy, Variety Heat DVD Region 1 Keep Case Dual Layer Letterbox - 1.85 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital 5.1 - French Additional Release Material: Trailers: Theatrical Trailers (3) Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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