Scarface (1983)

  • 2hr 50m
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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Brian De Palma

Producer:

Martin Bregman, Peter Saphier, Louis A. Stroller

Writer:

Oliver Stone, Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht

Release Date:

Dec 9, 1983

Runtime:

2hr 50m

Synopsis

In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

Cast

  • Al Pacino
  • Steven Bauer
  • Michelle Pfeiffer
  • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
  • Robert Loggia
  • Miriam Colon
  • F. Murray Abraham
  • Paul Shenar
  • Harris Yulin
  • Ángel Salazar

Did You Know?

Trivia

  • Though there has long been a myth that Pacino snorted real cocaine on camera, the "cocaine" used in the movie was supposedly powdered milk (even if De Palma has never officially stated what the crew used as a drug stand-in). But whatever it was, it created problems for Pacino's nasal passages. "For years after, I have had things up in there," Pacino said in 2015. "I don't know what happened to my nose, but it's changed."
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Goofs

  • The position of the binoculars when Montana chats with Sosa in Bolivia.
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Quotes

    • Tony Montana: I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Based on 9 Critics
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Universal acclaim based on 644 Reviews
100

Scarface is one of those special movies, like The Godfather, that is willing to take a flawed, evil man and allow him to be human.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
63

Scarface is a B- movie with singularly silly psychological pretensions: its neo-primitivism is to the complex moral cosmos of Francis Coppola's Godfather saga as Disney is to Dickens. [09 Dec 1983]

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Metacritic review by Jay Scott
Jay Scott
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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