Miller's Crossing (1990) [DVD9] [2003]

Arguably the best film by Joel and Ethan Coen, the 1990 Miller's Crossing stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom, a loyal lieutenant of a crime boss named Leo (Albert Finney) who is in a Prohibition-era turf war with his major rival, Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito). A man of principle, Tom nevertheless is romantically involved with Leo's lover (Marcia Gay Harden), whose screwy brother (John Turturro) escapes a hit ordered by Caspar only to become Tom's problem. Making matters worse, Tom has outstanding gambling debts he can't pay, which keeps him in regular touch with a punishing enforcer. With all the energy the Coens put into their films, and all their focused appreciation of genre conventions and rules, and all their efforts to turn their movies into ironic appreciations of archetypes in American fiction, they never got their formula so right as with Miller's Crossing. With its Hammett-like dialogue and Byzantine plot and moral chaos mitigated by one hero's personal code, the film so transcends its self-scrutiny as a retro-crime thriller that it is a deserved classic in its own right.





MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (uncredited)
COUNTRY: USA
YEAR: 1990

Cast & Credits

Cast
Tom Reagan Gabriel Byrne
Verna Marcia Gay Harden
Bernie Bernbaum John Turturro
Johnny Caspar Jon Polito
Leo Albert Finney
Mink Steve Buscemi


Credits
Director Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (uncredited)
Screenplay Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cinematography Barry Sonnenfeld
Editing Michael R. Miller








DVD:
DVD RELEASE: May 20, 2003
STUDIO: 20th Century Fox
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.85:1
COLOR
AUDIO: English Dolby Digital 4.0, French Dolby Surround, Spanish Stereo
SUBTITLES: English, Spanish
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 115 minutes


EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: Image (.ISO) + MDS file
FILE SIZE: 7.64 GB
SCANS HQ PDF(800 DPI): 7.32 MB

INFO:

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Special Features

* Shooting Miller's Crossing: A Conversation With Barry Sonnenfeld
* Interview Soundbites
* Theatrical Trailers
* Stills Gallery