Mad Dog and Glory (1993)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.1/10   

Director:

John McNaughton

Guionista (WGA):

Richard Price (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

5 marzo 1993 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Crimen | Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

A cop who'd rather be an artist. A mobster who'd rather be a comic. And a woman who'd rather be anywhere but between them.

Plot:

After his life is saved by a lonely cop, a mobster who moonlights as a standup comic, provides the cop with a friend: a beautiful woman.

Plot Keywords:

Police | Bar | Police Officer | Gangster | Coffee

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Not Appealing The Second Time Around

Reparto

Robert De Niro	...	Wayne 'Mad Dog' Dobie
Uma Thurman	...	Glory
Bill Murray	...	Frank Milo
David Caruso	...	Mike
Mike Starr	...	Harold
Tom Towles	...	Andrew the Beater
Kathy Baker	...	Lee
Derek Annunciation	...	Shooter (as Derek Anunciation)
Doug Hara	...	Driver
Evan Lionel	...	Dealer in Car
Anthony Cannata	...	Pavletz
J.J. Johnston	...	Shanlon
Guy Van Swearingen	...	Cop
Jack Wallace	...	Tommy the Bartender
Richard Belzer	...	M.C. / Comic

También conocida como:

La chica del gángster (Spain) [es]
La chica del gánster (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality, language, violence and drug content.

Duración:

97 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:14 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | USA:R (certificate #31990) | Portugal:M/16 | South Korea:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Netherlands:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | Argentina:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Compañía:

Universal Pictures

Trivialidades:

Robert De Niro was initially offered the role of gangster Frank Milo, but he insisted on playing the timid Wayne instead.

Errores:

Errores cometidos por los personajes (posiblemente errores deliberados por los cineastas): In the scene at the police station where Wayne is typing up a report while he talks to Frank, he uses white-out to correct a mistake. But since he's using a multi-part form, the typo would only be fixed on the top copy.

Citas:

Frank Milo: [Speaking to MadDog] Hey ossifer, what's the word?

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Broken Flowers (2005)

Banda de Sonido:

That Old Black Magic

Not Appealing The Second Time Around

Here again, here's a movie I liked the first time and discarded after the second viewing. It just lost its appeal. Part of that appeal was Uma Thurman, who can be awesome-looking at times (and the opposite at other times!). But, add Robert De Niro and Bill Murray and that's quite a threesome.

This story is a bit quirky thanks in large to Murray who plays a unique character: a very strange kind of mobster. The story was intriguing the first time but its bad points overwhelmed at me on the second viewing, enough that wouldn't watch this again.

What bad points? Well, I didn't like were three things:De Niro with the age-old-only-in Hollywood line "I love you" to Thurman even though he'd only known her for less than two days; a cheap shot against policeman where they show the cop next door as a cowardly wife-beater; and mainly just too much of a nasty meanness to this movie. Afterward, when I saw that Martin Scorcese co-directed and produced this film, that explained my last complaint. Sometimes ("Casino," for example, he overdoes the nasty stuff.)