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Plot
The next shift Frank is paired with his third partner Tom
Wolls (Sizemore), an enthusiastic man with violent tendencies. At this point Frank is slowly beginning to lose
his mind - while tending to a suicidal junkie Frank manages to scare the patient away. The pair are then called to
Cys drug den where another shooting has occurred, and
nd Cy impaled on a railing, having attempted to jump
to safety. Frank holds on to Cy as the other emergency
services cut the railing but Cy and Frank are nearly ung
o the edge before being pulled back up. Cy then thanks
Frank for saving his life - the rst patient Frank has saved
in months. Afterwards Frank agrees to help Tom beat up
Noel, but Frank is distracted and Noel ees into an area
beneath the houses. Tom and Frank chase after Noel but
Frank starts to hallucinate again, snapping out of it just
as he comes upon Tom beating Noel with his bat. During
his second visit to Mr. Burke, the voice again pleas to
let him die, and this time Frank removes Burkes breathing apparatus causing him to enter cardiac arrest, ending
his life. Frank then heads to Marys apartment to inform
her, and she seems to accept her fathers death. Frank is
invited in, falling asleep at Marys side.
2 Cast
Nicolas Cage as Frank Pierce
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REFERENCES
4 Production
The lm was part of a trio of lms in the late 1990s starring Nicolas Cage that were coproductions of Paramount
Pictures and Touchstone Pictures, with Face/O (1997)
with John Travolta and Snake Eyes (1998) with Gary
Sinise. The opening song on the movie is "T.B. Sheets", a
lengthy blues-inuenced song, about a young girl who lies
dying in a hospital bed, surrounded by the heavy smell of
death and disease. It was written by Van Morrison and
included on his 1967 album, Blowin' Your Mind!. The
song was originally to be used in Taxi Driver.
The director, Martin Scorsese, and Queen Latifah provided the voice of the ambulance dispatchers.
5 Reception
Sound-track
3.1
Track listing
6 Notes
Siegel, Ashely (January 1, 2000). Bringing Out
The Dead (R) (lm review)". Mountain Xpress
(Asheville, North Carolina, United States). Retrieved January 25, 2010.
7 References
[1] http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=
bringingoutthedead.htm
[2] Washburn, Lindy (February 27, 2000). To Hell And
Back in an Ambulance Author Chronicles A Medics
Wild Ride Between Death And Saving Lives. The Record
(Bergen County, New Jersey). Retrieved January 25,
2010.
External links
Bringing Out the Dead
Database
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