Serpico (Widescreen Edition)
by Sidney Lumet, Laurent Bouzereau
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Actor: Al Pacino, Jack Kehoe, John Randolph, Martin Bregman, Sidney LumetDirector: Laurent Bouzereau, Sidney Lumet
Brand: PACINO,AL
Producer: Laurent Bouzereau
Writer: Laurent Bouzereau
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
Writer: Norman Wexler
Writer: Peter Maas
Writer: Waldo Salt
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 130 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-12-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Serpico (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Serpico: A Name That Became Famous
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a fairly long film but, like Al Pacino, it's rarely boring. The name of Pacino's character, "Serpico," has become synonymous with "honest cop." It demonstrates what a strong impact this movie had on millions of people.
There have so many crooked-cops-themed films in the past 30 years that this film has lost a lot of its shock-and-awe. The long hair, wild clothes, beads, etc. really date this film, too, it being so early '70s in looks. It's almost become a "period piece" as if it were the Roaring Twenties except its the Hairy and sleazy Seventies.
What hasn't changed over the years is Pacino's acting, of course. There have been very few films in which he starred that didn't display his talents to the fullest. This film, along with Dog Day Afternoon and few others, put him "on the map," making him a big star. He's been a "star" ever since.
Gritty? Yes. Profane? Yes; Memorable? Most definitely. When you speak of modern-day film classics, "Serpico" is one of them.
Summary of Serpico (Widescreen Edition)
True-life story of a non-conformist undercover New York cop whose techniques isolate him from the rest of the force.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 19-AUG-2003
Media Type: DVD
Tony Manero (John Travolta) in Saturday Night Fever and Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) in Boogie Nights have one major thing in common: They both have posters of Al Pacino as Serpico on their bedroom walls. As the real-life NYPD detective whose integrity cost him virtually everything (and almost cost him his life), Pacino became one of the icons of gritty, realistic 1970s filmmaking. Released in 1973, between the first two Godfather movies, this is the true story of Frank Serpico, a long-haired, idealistic, iconoclastic cop who reluctantly goes undercover to investigate dirty colleagues who are on the take. This is one of the definitive Pacino performances, along with his role as Michael Corleone in the Godfather saga, and Sonny the bungling bank robber in Dog Day Afternoon (which reunited him with his Serpico director, Sidney Lumet)--and Pacino was nominated for a best actor Oscar for all of them (although he wouldn't actually win until 1992's Scent of a Woman). --Jim Emerson
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