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Al Pacino: Performances
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Al Pacino, in a dynamic performance, is Frank Serpico, the undercover cop who goes against the system and finds both crooks and fellow cops after him. Riveting, action-packed real-life drama, based on the Peter Maas book, co-stars John Randolph, M. Emmet Walsh. 130 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; documentary; photo gallery; theatrical trailer.
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Al Pacino, whose trademark is his volcanic tirade and smoke-burnished voice, has ... earned critical acclaim for his stage performances. He won double Tony Awards for his supporting role in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969) and for starring in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1977). As for television, Al Pacino has been awarded an Emmy and Screen Actors Guild award for his portrayal of character Roy Marcus Cohn in the miniseries Angels in America (2004).
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Gene Hackman and Al Pacino deliver outstanding performances as a pair of eccentric drifters in this bittersweet serio-comedy. Making his way from California to Pittsburgh to open a car wash, an ex-con (Hackman) finds a travelling companion in the form of a sailor (Pacino), who's fresh off a five-year stint at sea, headed for Detroit to see his wife and the child he's never met. With Ann Wedgeworth, Eileen Brennan. 112 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; featurette; theatrical trailer.
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Arguably one of the greatest actors in modern history, Pacino rose from relative obscurity to become the star of one of the best film franchises in history. In 1972, director Francis Ford Coppola cast the unknown Italian-American in his iconic mobster drama, The Godfather, despite studio disapproval. His intense performance earned him an Academy Award nomination and a permanent place in cinematic history. Throughout his career, Pacino has succeeded in playing troubled gangster-types in dramatic films such as Serpico (1973), Scarface (1983), Carlioto's Way (1993) and the two Godfather sequels. But he ... wowed audiences in subtle performances like that of a misguided, gay bank robber in Dog Day Afternoon, a sleep-deprived detective in Insomnia and as a blind womanizer in Scent of a Woman, which, after seven nominations, finally scored Pacino an Academy Award.
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As a short-tempered thug who bungles a bank robbery meant to pay for his lover's sex change operation and holds the bank's employees hostage for 14 hours, Pacino's performance is charged with neurotic energy throughout. The film could be faulted for making its protagonist more likeable, more amusing, and, therefore, more human than the buttoned down representatives of law and order whom he opposes, but it crackles with Pacino's uninhibited performance, fueled by Frank Pierson's tough, insightful dialogue and Sidney Lumet's flavorful direction.
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Rising director Christopher Nolan worked with Pacino for Insomnia, a remake of the Norwegian Film of the same name. The film and Pacino's performance was critically lauded and the film did moderately well at the box office.
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