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    Heat (1995)

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    A stellar cast sizzles in Heat, a taut psychological drama about an obsessive detective and a brilliant thief whose fates are linked in the aftermath of a high-stakes securities heist.

    Brilliant LAPD robbery/homicide cop Lt. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) follows the trail from an armoured car robbery which left three people dead and becomes fixated on deadly but equally brilliant master thief Neil McCauley (Robert DeNiro) and his crew who are taking Los Angeles to the cleaners.

    Vincent is on his third marriage, though judging from the dissatisfied state of mind of his Prozac-gobbling wife, Justine (Diane Venora) he’s soon about to be in the market again.

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    Neil, on the other hand, believes you should never become involved with anything you can’t walk away from in 30 seconds – he doesn’t even have any furniture in his apartment. But when graphic artist Eady (Amy Brenneman) comes on to him, he finds himself falling in love for the first time.

    Both men have surrogate “families” outside their homes. For Vincent, it’s his squad of hard-nosed cops with whom he inevitably spends more time than with his wife and emotionally unbalanced step-daughter. For Neil, it’s his gang of fellow crooks including the unstable Chris (Val Kilmer) and the shady Nate (a creepy-looking Jon Voight), his silent partner in crime.

    When Neil catches Chris’ wife, Charlene (Ashley Judd) in an extramarital tryst, he becomes a de facto marriage counsellor, and despite Neil’s short temper, his affection for his partners is always unmistakable.

    Heat includes one of the most spectacular shoot-outs in film history as DeNiro and Kilmer rip through downtown Los Angeles with both guns blazing in an all-out firefight when the cops interrupt a bank robbery.

    Lt. Vincent Hanna
    Al Pacino
    Neil McCauley
    Robert De Niro
    Chris Shiherlis
    Val Kilmer
    Nate
    Jon Voight
    Michael Cheritto
    Tom Sizemore
    Justine
    Diane Venora
    Eady
    Amy Brenneman
    Charlene Shiherlis
    Ashley Judd
    Sergeant Drucker
    Mykelti Williamson
    Casals
    Wes Studi
    Bosko
    Ted Levine
    Donald Breedan
    Dennis Haysbert
    Roger Van Zant
    William Fichtner
    Lauren Gustafson
    Natalie Portman
    Kelso
    Tom Noonan

    Director
    Michael Mann

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