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Ambição em Alta Voltagem

Título original: Dead Presidents
  • 1995
  • 18
  • 1 h 59 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
6,9/10
26 mil
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POPULARIDADE
4.706
1.260
Ambição em Alta Voltagem (1995)
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Anthony Curtis é um garoto do Bronx, que decide se alistar, deixando tudo para trás. Quando volta da guerra condecorado, descobre rapidamente que não será tratado como herói.Anthony Curtis é um garoto do Bronx, que decide se alistar, deixando tudo para trás. Quando volta da guerra condecorado, descobre rapidamente que não será tratado como herói.Anthony Curtis é um garoto do Bronx, que decide se alistar, deixando tudo para trás. Quando volta da guerra condecorado, descobre rapidamente que não será tratado como herói.

  • Direção
    • Albert Hughes
    • Allen Hughes
  • Roteiristas
    • Allen Hughes
    • Albert Hughes
    • Michael Henry Brown
  • Artistas
    • Larenz Tate
    • Keith David
    • Chris Tucker
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,9/10
    26 mil
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    POPULARIDADE
    4.706
    1.260
    • Direção
      • Albert Hughes
      • Allen Hughes
    • Roteiristas
      • Allen Hughes
      • Albert Hughes
      • Michael Henry Brown
    • Artistas
      • Larenz Tate
      • Keith David
      • Chris Tucker
    • 119Avaliações de usuários
    • 31Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
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    Larenz Tate
    Larenz Tate
    • Anthony Curtis
    Keith David
    Keith David
    • Kirby
    Chris Tucker
    Chris Tucker
    • Skip
    Freddy Rodríguez
    Freddy Rodríguez
    • Jose
    Rose Jackson
    Rose Jackson
    • Juanita Benson
    N'Bushe Wright
    N'Bushe Wright
    • Delilah Benson
    Alvaleta Guess
    • Mrs. Benson
    James Pickens Jr.
    James Pickens Jr.
    • Mr. Curtis
    Jenifer Lewis
    Jenifer Lewis
    • Mrs. Curtis
    Clifton Powell
    Clifton Powell
    • Cutty
    Elizabeth Rodriguez
    Elizabeth Rodriguez
    • Marisol
    Terrence Howard
    Terrence Howard
    • Cowboy
    • (as Terrence Dashon Howard)
    Ryan Williams
    • Young Revolutionary
    Larry McCoy
    • Nicky
    Rodney Winfield
    • Mr. Warren
    Cheryl Freeman
    Cheryl Freeman
    • Mrs. Barton
    Sticky Fingaz
    Sticky Fingaz
    • Martin
    Bokeem Woodbine
    Bokeem Woodbine
    • Cleon
    • Direção
      • Albert Hughes
      • Allen Hughes
    • Roteiristas
      • Allen Hughes
      • Albert Hughes
      • Michael Henry Brown
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    Avaliações de usuários119

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    7hitchcockthelegend

    Brothers In Arms.

    Albert and Allen Hughes direct, produce and co-write (with Michael Henry Brown) this tale about Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate), a South Bronx boy who goes off to fight in Vietnam, to then return after his tours of duty to find things just aren't the same anymore. The follow up to their incendiary debut, Menace II Society, the Hughes brothers deliver another in your face picture that is quite frankly on a perpetual downer. This is no bad thing, though, as long as you are not looking to be cheered up.

    That's Uncle Sam for you! Mean Green.

    The pic very much harks back to the glory days of film noir in the 40s and 50s, where some talented film makers began to tell stories of returning war veterans finding what they left behind is now alien to them - with some characters, as is the case here - deeply scarred by their experiences. Add in some gangster elements and the coup de grâce that is the scintillating heist, and clearly the brothers have seen many an old classic film. That the narrative is tried and tested stops the piece hitting greater heights, this in spite of some super acting (especially Tate and the always value for money Keith David) and the hard hitting violence that pierces the senses. Predictable yet potent, and certainly memorable, it's well worth a look for the tough of mind and the classic era film of heart. 7/10
    8Tweekums

    War and poverty lead to robbery in post-Vietnam New York

    Opening in 1969, in the South Bronx, we are introduced to protagonist Anthony Curtis and his friends who are talking about what they will do after they finish school. Anthony decides to sign up for service in the US Marines. While there he fights alongside some of his old friends and makes new ones. After four years serving his country he returns home and discovers life isn't easy for a young black man during an economic downturn. He gets a job but it doesn't pay much; his girlfriend, and mother of his child, is getting money from a pimp and his girlfriend's sister is in a radical militant group. When he loses his job he and his friends work with a local criminal to make one big score... to rob an armoured car taking used currency to be incinerated.

    When I sat down to watch this I was expecting a fairly conventional heist movie; that is certainly what the DVD box implied... in fact that is only a very small part of the film. Rather than the conventional heist movie where the first half is the planning before the execution this is about the events that led a promising young man to turn crime. The early scenes serve to introduce us to Anthony and his friends; he clearly isn't a saint as we see him working for a local crook but he still volunteers and ends up fighting in Vietnam where he sees some very unpleasant things. The scenes set during the war are in turns exciting and disturbing but not entirely without humour. Back in the US the film captures the poverty of Bronx where there are few real opportunities for most people; and while not justifying it explains why some turn to crime or radicalism. When we finally get to the robbery it is well handled; exciting without being glamourous. The cast does a fine job; most notably Larenz Tate who excels as Anthony and Chris Tucker who brings humour to the proceedings, as his friend Skip, without going too far and feeling out of place. Overall I'd definitely recommend this; just don't expect a traditional crime/heist movie.
    martymaster

    A strong movie about life for a black man after the Vietnam war

    For all those who liked the movie "Menace 2 Society",you are going to love this one. This movie features the star from Menace to Society "Larenz Tate" and the well known "Chris Tucker". This is a very violent movie and have a few very gory scenes of the Vietnam war,but that is okay because this movie really shows how difficult it must have been for a black man growing up in the Bronx in the 60's.And it shows how life is for him and his friends after coming home from the Vietnam war. The language in this movie is of course very tough and rough and I could actually count the f-word 247 times in this movie and that speaks for it's self.

    This is an extremely well made movie that really shows the reality of how hard the world can be for some people.

    I advice everybody to go out and pick up this movie, because it is a story that you got to hear.
    6wahoodoss-1

    Tries to do too much

    Dead Presidents is an okay movie. Not bad, not great. Okay. I give it a B-.

    I give Dead Presidents high marks for casting and acting. Larenz Tate, Chris Tucker, and the rest did a fabulous job. I also like the war scenes--very gripping, very scary.

    The problem that I have with the movie is that it spans too many genres and as a result, just seems to drag on and on. The tag line would make you believe that this is a cops and robbers film centered around a major heist. But that is terribly misleading. The heist doesn't happen and isn't even an issue until late in the film. Up to that point you could consider this a life in the ghetto movie, trying to escape the ghetto movie, a Viet Nam war movie, a what life was like for blacks in the late 60's early 70's movie, a what the Viet Nam war did to those who survived it movie, so on and so on. By the time it came around for the big robbery, I was wondering when this movie would end. This problem of too grand a scope keeps the movie from getting an A.
    9Johnny0581

    Great movie

    I really enjoyed this movie. Everyone in it did an excellent job and it was very gripping. It keeps you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. Larenz Tate, in his best role ever, plays Anthony Curtis, a young black man from late 1960's The Bronx, who is just a regular guy who hangs out with his friends played by Chris Tucker also in his best role ever as Skip, and Freddy Rodriguez as Jose. Shortly after graduation from high school, Anthony decides he doesn't want to follow his big brother's path of going to college but instead, joining the Marine Corps and fight for his country. Shortly thereafter, we are taken to Vietnam with the boys and we meet some other interesting characters, one of them a psychotic preacher, Cleon, played by Bokeem Woodbine,and the Vietnam sequences are executed very realistically and are very bloody. After a while, we are taken back to the boogie down Bronx, where Anthony upon returning to the old neighborhood after four years,realizes that things are even worse than before, and everyone, including his pre-Vietnam girlfriend, Juanita, all have taken their lives in a different direction. Anthony is now a father, and cannot find a job anywhere and realizes that his own country has turned his back on him and many young black veterans from 'Nam, including his old boys Skip and Jose. We also meet Kirby, played by Keith David, a once cold and ruthless hustler, who has now left the life because the corruption of the city has forced him to quit his old habits, and Juanita's sister Delilah, played by N'Bushe Wright, who is an activist with the Black Panthers. Pretty soon all of these characters, save Juanita, fed up with their lives and their situation, get together to plan a stickup on an armored truck that is making a pickup of old dollar bills and is taking them to a location in Washington to burn them. The stickup sequence is very well made, but of course, bloody. This movie is filled with great performances, the best coming from Larenz Tate, Bokeem Woodbine and Keith David, heart-pounding action and good dialogue. A Hughes Brothers' classic. 9.5 out of 10.

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    • Curiosidades
      All police officers depicted in this movie are from the fictional 53rd Precinct, the setting for Car 54, Where Are You? (1961) and Baretta (1975).
    • Erros de gravação
      When Jose blows up the armored car with the ordinance, the back of the truck raises up in the air and falls back down on top of a heavy metal pole revealing that the pole is what caused the armored car to jump up into the air when it shot out of the bottom of the truck and not the explosion.
    • Citações

      Kirby: Everyone in this town knows I've only got one leg. And that motherfucker grabbed the wrong one.

    • Versões alternativas
      Criterion laserdisc version includes additional scenes originally deleted before the theatrical release.
    • Conexões
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Assassins/Dead Presidents/How to Make an American Quilt/Strange Days/Persuasion (1995)
    • Trilhas sonoras
      I Was Made To Love Her
      Written by Lula Mae Hardaway, Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby & Sylvia Moy

      Performed by Stevie Wonder

      Courtesy of Motown Record Company, L.P.

      By Arrangement With Polygram Special Markets

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    Detalhes

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 6 de outubro de 1995 (Estados Unidos da América)
    • País de origem
      • Estados Unidos da América
    • Idioma
      • Inglês
    • Também conhecido como
      • Presidentes Mortos
    • Locações de filme
      • Mount Vernon, Nova York, EUA
    • Empresas de produção
      • Hollywood Pictures
      • Caravan Pictures
      • Underworld Entertainment
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    • Orçamento
      • US$ 10.000.000 (estimativa)
    • Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 24.147.179
    • Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 7.943.778
      • 8 de out. de 1995
    • Faturamento bruto mundial
      • US$ 24.147.179
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    Especificações técnicas

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    • Tempo de duração
      • 1 h 59 min(119 min)
    • Mixagem de som
      • Dolby Digital
    • Proporção
      • 2.35 : 1

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