Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy (Sean Penn). All he wants is to keep his nose clean and earn enough money to start a business in the Bahamas--and maybe rekindle romance with his old flame, played by Penelope Ann Miller. Instead he finds himself back in trouble as a result of old-world codes of honor and misguided loyalties. It all takes place in 1975 Manhattan, in and around a nightclub Carlito manages, so there's plenty of classic disco music pulsing on the soundtrack. John Leguizamo plays one of the younger generation of hoodlums out to prove something. Viggo Mortensen and Luis Guzmán star as a couple of Carlito's buddies from the old days. Brian De Palma, who directed Pacino a decade earlier in SCARFACE, makes this seem almost like that film's sequel. As expected, there's plenty of elaborate tracking shots and suspenseful set pieces, most memorably a pulse-pounding chase through Grand Central Station. It's adapted from two novels by New York Supreme Court Judge Edwin Torres based on his childhood in East Harlem.

Drug kingpin Carlito Brigante vows to go straight when he is released from prison. As a host of vengeful former cronies and young thugs out to prove themselves come after him, somehow he must find a way to hold on to his newfound integrity.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Collectors Edition
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
Dolby Digital Mono - Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Making Of: THE MAKING OF CARLITO'S WAY
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos

Al Pacino: Oscar winning actor, THE GODFATHER, SCENT OF A WOMAN
Sean Penn: Actor, Director
Penelope Ann Miller: American actress
John Leguizamo: American Actor/Writer
Ingrid Rogers: 
Luis Guzmán: Puerto Rican actor, BOOGIE NIGHTS
James Rebhorn: Supporting Actor
Joseph Siravo: Actor/"Carlito's Way"
Viggo Mortensen: American Actor
Richard Foronjy: American Character Actor
Jorge Porcel: Actor/"Carlito's Way"
Frank Minucci: Actor
Adrian Pasdar: American Actor

Brian De Palma: American Director/Screenwriter, SCARFACE (1983)

Martin Bregman: 
Michael Scott Bregman: 
Willi Baer: 

David Koepp: Screenwriter/Producer

"...A fierce Pacino performance...and a trio of big action sequences as exciting as anything seen on screen..."
"...Pacino is the sexiest he's ever been as the Puerto Rican crook, but it's Penn who really steals the show..."
"...Pacino brings vast entertainment value to [the film]....[Penn gives a] strange, jarringly intense performance..."
"...A smoother piece of filmmaking than SCARFACE....It's fun to see Sean Penn ham it up again....His energetic performance keeps you watching..."
"...Rich with irony and keen in its attention to detail. Handsomely made, expertly directed and colorfully acted....Brian De Palma is in top form with CARLITO'S WAY..."
"...Brian De Palma in his best films is a muscular director who relishes over-the-top behavior, and here he paints a gallery of colorful gangsters and lowlifes..."
"Penn's spectacularly flashy supporting role marked his best work in a decade."