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Serpico

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Released: 2002-12-03

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Serpico DVD Cast & Features Cast:
George Ede, Rene Enriquez, Richard Foronjy, Hank Garrett, Nathan George, Gene Gross, Edward Grover, Albert Henderson, Judd Hirsch, F. Murray Abraham, Bernard Barrow, Don Billett, Mildred Clinton, Ed Crowley, John Medici, Alan North, Norman Ornellas, Mary Louise Weller, Charles White, Allan Rich, Franklin Scott, Ted Beniades, Joe Bova, Sal Carollo, Tim Pelt, John Stewart, Damien Leake, John Lehne, Al Pacino, Tony Roberts, Jack Kehoe, Cornelia Sharpe, Barbara Eda-Young, Lewis J. Stadlen, James Tolkan, M. Emmet Walsh, Kenneth McMillan, John Randolph, Biff McGuire

Director(s): Sidney Lumet

Features:
cc
Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 TVs
Dolby digital english 5.1 surround
English restored mono
French mono
English subtitles
Serpico from real to reel
Inside serpico
Serpico: favorite moments
Photo gallery with commentary by director Sidney Lumet
Theatrical trailer

Serpico DVD Details

Video:
Enchanced Widescreen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Language:
English
French
Subtitles:
English

Running Time: 130
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 097360868944
Product Code: PRT086894DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1973
Studio: Paramount

Serpico DVD Summary Adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas's book, Sidney Lumet's drama portrays the real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system.

Neophyte officer Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) is determined not to let his job get in the way of his individuality.

Despite his colleagues' leery reactions, he keeps one foot firmly planted in the counterculture, sporting a beard and love beads and living in bohemian Greenwich Village, while he performs his police duties with dispatch.

Serpico's peers genuinely ostracize him, however, when he refuses to take bribes like everybody else.

Appalled by the extent of police corruption, Serpico goes to his superiors, but when he discovers that they have ignored his charges, he takes the potentially fatal step of breaking the blue wall of silence and going public with his exposé.

Serpico's revelations trigger an independent investigation by the Knapp Commission, but they also make him a marked man, permanently changing his life.

Shot on location with a gritty emphasis on documentary-style realism, Serpico presents a city in decay both literally and morally, as everybody is in on the take, and the cops and criminals are almost interchangeable.

Released in late 1973, after months of revelations of Presidential malfeasance in the breaking Watergate scandal, Serpico's true story of bureaucratic depravity touched a cultural nerve, and the film became a hit with both critics and audiences, particularly for Pacino's complex performance as the honest, long-haired whistleblower.

One year after his star-making triumph in The Godfather, Pacino was nominated for an Oscar again, and lost again; Lumet and Pacino would reunite two years later for another true New York story, Dog Day Afternoon.