Carlito's Way

Synopsis

Freed from a thirty-year federal prison sentence on a legal technicality by his cocaine-addicted mob lawyer, legendary Puerto Rican heroin kingpin Carlito Brigante resolves to go straight, manage an upscale 1970s Manhattan nightclub, save $75,000 to buy a car rental business in the Bahamas, and reconcile with his dancer girlfriend, but finds his street loyalty dragged into lethal betrayals by his lawyer and a ruthless young upstart gangster. Brian De Palma's operatic, tragic neo-noir masterpiece starring Al Pacino and Sean Penn.