Dick Tracy / Touchstone Pictures presents in association with Silver Screen Partners IV ; written by Jim Cash & Jack Epps, Jr. ; produced and directed by Warren Beatty.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 18372 | Touchstone Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English Publication details: Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Video, [2002?]Edition: WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0788818899
- 9780788818899
- Dick Tracy (Motion picture : 1990)
- Music, Danny Elfman ; editor, Richard Marks ; production designer, Richard Sylbert ; cinematography, Vittorio Storaro ; executive producers, Barrie M. Osborne and Art Linson & Floyd Mutrux.
- Academy Award winner, 1990 : best art direction ; best makeup ; best music (original song, "Sooner or later")
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Warren Beatty directed and starred in this big-budget action comedy featuring Chester Gould's square-jawed, two-dimensional comic strip detective. Ruthless gangster Big Boy Caprice (Al Pacino) touches off a gang war against underworld boss Lips Manlis (Paul Sorvino), with Big Boy and his minions rubbing out enough of Manlis's goons (along with Manlis himself) to take over his nightclub, and a healthy percentage of the city's criminal activities in the process. Caprice also gains proprietary rights to Manlis's girlfriend, nightclub chanteuse Breathless Mahoney (Madonna). Big Boy's next move to is unite the rest of the city's crooks under his command; this wave of corruption attracts the attention of lawman Dick Tracy, who is determined to smash Caprice's criminal network once and for all. As Tracy plots to put Big Boy behind bars where he belongs, Breathless uses her considerable charms in an attempt to sway Tracy from the path of righteousness; this causes no small amount of anxiety for Tracy's long-suffering female companion, Tess Trueheart (Glenne Headly), and the street-smart kid (Charlie Korsmo) they've been keeping an eye on. The various bad guys, heavily made up to resemble Gould's cartoon characters (though Beatty is not made up to resemble Tracy), include Dustin Hoffman, James Caan, R.G. Armstrong, and William Forsythe. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (1.85:1), DTS 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound.
Soundtrack in English or French; closed captioned.
Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly, Mandy Patinkin, Charles Durning, Paul Sorvino, William Forsythe, Dustin Hoffman, Dick Van Dyke, Michael J. Pollard, Estelle Parsons, James Tolkan, Kathy Bates.
Music, Danny Elfman ; editor, Richard Marks ; production designer, Richard Sylbert ; cinematography, Vittorio Storaro ; executive producers, Barrie M. Osborne and Art Linson & Floyd Mutrux.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990.
MPAA rating: PG.
G-man Dick Tracy battles top crime figure The Lame One in San Francisco.
Academy Award winner, 1990 : best art direction ; best makeup ; best music (original song, "Sooner or later")
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