Rating: R
Genre:
Crime
Theatrical Release: 09/13/2003(USA
Release Date: 11/01/2009
Flags: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
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). The screenplay for the 1983
Scarface was written by
Oliver Stone.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
