Dimensions
128 x 198 x 9mm
New York City, the early 1990s: Frank Pierce is an EMS paramedic driving an ambulance through the city's darkest streets on the 'graveyard shift'. His job is to deal with broken bodies on a daily basis. Bringing Out the Dead is the account of fifty-six hours in Frank's life - two days and three nights on the job - as, hungering for redemption, he reaches the very brink of spiritual collapse.This is Paul Schrader's fourth screenplay for director Martin Scorses, following their celebrated colaborations on Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ. The film continues their fascinated exploration of the lives of drifting, soulful, lonely characters. But unlike Travis Bickle or Jake LaMotta, Frank Pierce is a man committed to saving the lives of others: fearful that he has become 'an instrument of death' and desperately in search of peace.
