Bringing Out the Dead

(1999)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 1,274 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1999

Runtime: 121 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Мартин Скорсезе

Cast: Николас Кейдж, Патриша Аркетт, Джон Гудман, Винг Реймз, Том Сайзмор, Marc Anthony, Mary Beth Hurt, Клифф Кёртис, Аида Туртурро, Нестор Серрано

Plot

Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

An Easter story. Frank is a Manhattan medic, working graveyard in a two-man ambulance team. He's burned out, exhausted, seeing ghosts, especially a young woman he failed to save six months' before, and no longer able to save people: he brings in the dead. We follow him for three nights, each with a different partner: Larry, who thinks about dinner, Marcus, who looks to Jesus, and Tom, who wallops people when work is slow. Frank befriends the daughter of a heart victim he brings in; she's Mary, an ex-junkie, angry at her father but now hoping he'll live. Frank tries to get fired, tries to quit, and keeps coming back, to work and to Mary, in need of his own rebirth.