Bringing Out the Dead
Any call can be murder, any stop can be suicide, any night can be the last.
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn.He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Worldwide
- $17M
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Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
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Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
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Box Office & Release
Bringing Out the Dead returned 0.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $32M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $17M
- Release date
- Oct 22, 1999
- Runtime
- 2h 1m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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