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''Carlito's Way'' is a 1993 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, based on the novels ''Carlito's Way'' and ''After Hours'' by Judge Edwin Torres. The film adaptation was scripted by David Koepp. It stars Al Pacino and Sean Penn, with Penelope Ann Miller, Luis Guzmán, John Leguizamo, and Viggo Mortensen in supporting roles. The film's featured song, "You Are So Beautiful", was performed by Joe Cocker. The film follows the life of Carlito Brigante after he is released from prison and vows to go straight and retire. Unable to escape his past, he ends up being dragged into the same criminal activities that got him imprisoned in the first place. Penn and Miller received Golden Globe nominations for their performances. A prequel entitled ''Carlito's Way: Rise to Power'', based on Torres's first novel, was filmed and released in 2005. ==Plot== In New York City in 1975, after serving only five years of a 30-year prison sentence, Carlito Brigante is freed on a legal technicality exploited by his lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld, infuriating the district attorney. Brigante returns to his old neighborhood of Spanish Harlem, where he reconnects with old associates. Although he vows that he is finished with crime, Brigante is persuaded to accompany his cousin Guajiro to a drug deal at a bar. Guajiro is betrayed and killed while Brigante is forced to shoot his way out. He takes Guajiro's money and uses it to buy into a nightclub, with the intent of saving $75,000 to retire to the Caribbean. Brigante declines a business partnership with an ambitious young gangster from the Bronx named Benny Blanco, disliking his manners. Brigante then rekindles a romance with former girlfriend Gail, a ballet dancer who moonlights as a stripper. An old friend, Lalin, recently released from prison and now confined to a wheelchair, tries to tempt Brigante with a drug deal but is caught wearing a wire. Brigante realizes that District Attorney Norwalk is determined to put him back behind bars. Kleinfeld develops a love interest with Blanco's girlfriend, Steffie, a hostess at the club. Blanco's frustration with being rejected by Brigante results in his manhandling Steffie, at which point Kleinfeld pulls out a gun and threatens to kill him. Brigante intervenes, but, against his better judgment, lets Blanco go, to the disapproval of Brigante's trusted bodyguard Pachanga. Kleinfeld, having stolen one million dollars from his Italian mob boss client, "Tony T" Taglialucci, is coerced into providing his yacht to help Tony T break out of the Rikers Island prison barge. Kleinfeld begs for help and Brigante reluctantly agrees. At night, Brigante, Kleinfeld, and Tony T's son, Frankie, sail to a floating buoy outside of the prison barge. As they pull Tony T aboard, Kleinfeld unexpectedly bludgeons him to death, then slits Frankie's throat and dumps both bodies in the East River. The next day, Kleinfeld barely survives a retaliatory assassination attempt. He is hospitalized with stab wounds. Brigante is taken to Norwalk's office, where he and Gail listen to a tape of Kleinfeld cutting a deal and offering to testify to false criminal allegations against Brigante, his client and friend. Norwalk tries to leverage him into betraying Kleinfeld to save himself. Brigante refuses but visits the hospital, where Kleinfeld confesses to selling him out. Having noticed a suspicious man dressed in a police uniform, Brigante discreetly unloads Kleinfeld's revolver and leaves. The man is Tony T's other son, Vinnie, who sneaks into a defenseless Kleinfeld's room and kills him. Brigante buys train tickets to Miami for himself and Gail, now pregnant. When he stops by his club to retrieve his stashed money, Brigante is met by a group of mobsters led by Vinnie. The Italians plan on killing Brigante, who slips out through a secret exit. The Italians pursue him throughout the city's subway system and into Grand Central Terminal, where they engage in a gunfight. Brigante kills all of his pursuers except Vinnie, who is shot by police attracted by the gunfire. As Brigante runs to catch the train where Gail and Pachanga are waiting, he is ambushed by Benny, who fatally shoots Brigante several times. Pachanga admits to Brigante that he is now working for Blanco, only to be fatally shot as well. Brigante hands Gail the money and tells her to escape with their unborn child and start a new life. As he is wheeled away on a gurney, Brigante stares at a billboard of a woman on a Caribbean beach. The billboard comes to life, and the woman, who is clearly Gail, starts dancing as Brigante dies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carlito's Way」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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