Bringing Out the Dead

Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, directed by Martin Scorcese. A psychological drama in which Nicolas Cage plays a strong role portrayed as an impotent paramedic in the ambulance service of New York, desperately and very cleverly trying to rescue and comfort the people who come into his path.

The film's reflection of people's vulnerability, humiliation and drug abuse confers a painfully realistic look.