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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792858911
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792858913
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 02, 2003
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 9513
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: November 01, 1985
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Product Description:
Secret Service agent Richard Chance will do anything--whether legal or not--to nail the creep who murdered his partner. Then he gets a lead on the killer...but the wily criminal is smooth enough to keep eluding capture.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 027616886453 Manufacturer No: 1004604
Amazon.com:
William Friedkin briefly revived his faltering career with this sleek, bleak thriller of a pair of secret service agents on the trail of a counterfeiter. William L. Peterson is the hotshot protégé of a career agent killed by the ruthless, almost feral counterfeiting genius Willem Dafoe (Platoon). Now Petersen, teamed with the smart but still green John Pankow (TV's Mad About You), is ready to twist arms, lean on criminals, steal, and even murder to exact his revenge. The harrowing chase through the streets of Los Angeles that climaxes on the freeway at rush hour, where Friedkin's brilliant twist sends them heading the wrong way, careening through a sea of cars coming straight at them, is still one of the most breathtaking car chases ever filmed. Friedkin's edgy crime thriller, stylishly shot in steely blues against hazy red and orange skies by Robby Muller (Paris, Texas), paints a very thin line between the good guys and the bad guys, and Wang Chung's techno soundtrack sets the proper mood--jumpy and alienated. It's a cynical and very brutal look into the world of law enforcement (adapted by Friedkin and former Secret Service man Gerald Petievich from his novel) and a cold portrayal of the power games between cops and feds, and cops and informants. John Turturro, Dean Stockwell, and Robert Downey Sr. are featured in supporting roles. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  - I wonder why we waste our lives here, when we could run away to paradise?
Other reviewers did a great job , and there's nothing left for me))), except this: first of all I'd like to notice that brilliantly used "flashbacks" in some scenes gives you much of mysterious feel (especially during final scene) and movie shines even more with it, addin' to this "multi-layered" masterpiece one more implication way.
After movie is over you'd prefer to watch it again and again, and still after numerous times of watching, you'll be thinking and wondering about this twisted story over and over. And now I understand Jack Hues(Wang Chand) who wrote a very solid song(To Live and Die in L.A.) being highly impressed at pre-production show of film.
Also I would like to notice that DVD is well done with amazing sound, good visuals transaction(but it could be a bit better) and with such adds as deleted scenes and alternate ending etc. Personally, I will be waiting possible Blue-Ray release.
Rating: - In the dark of the night/Every time I turn the light/I feel God is not in Heaven...
Hang on to your hats, folks, this movie is genre revisionism with a vengeance. William Friedkin's 1985 take on the Rogue Cop movie, made at the genre's high tide (between "48 Hours" and "Lethal Weapon," while Stallone and Shwarzenegger were churning out programmers like "Raw Deal" and "Cobra" and "Miami Vice" was the hottest thing on the tube), takes the hoary cliche of the vigilante cop who will stop at absolutley nothing to take down the crook who killed his partner (days before retirement, of course) and pulls the audience into very dark territory indeed. So dark the audience didn't follow, and the movie was a box office and critical fiasco. Which, as is so often the case, means To Live and Die is a masterpiece. Over and over again, the movies have encouraged us to cheer when a cop throws out the rule book and gets down and dirty to bring down the bad guy; Friedkin meticulously, rigorously designed this film to make the cheer die in our throat and turn into a cry of despair.
William Peterson plays Chance, a US treasury agent, whose partner has been gunned down by a counterfeitor he was tailing named Masters (Willem Dafoe). Peterson begins by attempting to smoke Masters out by surveillance, then by busting his associates and attempting to turn them, but when all that fails, he goes undercover as a buyer of funny money --and finds himself crossing over the line between law and crime.
I don't want to spoil much here, as this film is dependant on numerous narrative turns ... Read More
Rating:  - Even with the toe kneading, we have a movie that is exciting, irritating, nasty around the edges and a pleasure to watch.
To Live and Die in L. A., in my opinion, is a first-class movie, just as a scoop of jamocha almond fudge is a great cone. But it's unnerving when after three or four satisfying licks of jamocha all of a sudden you're handling the taste of tutti-frutti. What the...but then you're back quickly to the jamocha...wait a minute, now I've got a taste of raspberry-pumpkin to deal with.
William Friedkin's movie about a murderous counterfeiter and an obsessed, out-of-control Secret Service agent who is determined to kill or capture him has many pleasures. Among them is Willem Dafoe as Rick Masters, a first-rate counterfeiter, a second-rate artist, a clever man with a big, cunning ego and a dangerous lack of humanitarian standards. Masters is a killer, and Dafoe, with his bony face, full lips and watchful eyes -- and outstanding acting talent -- makes the most of the part. There's a terrific, white-knuckle car chase through a truck-crowded produce market and then the wrong way on a crowded freeway. And Friedkin makes the most of the story, from telling us all we would ever want to know about how to counterfeit $20 bills, and doing so in fascinating detail, to building a gallery of sleazy criminals, used women and all-too-flawed cops. The drive to bring down Rick Masters is built up of set piece after set piece, each a building block which is put in place with a great deal of assurance. I enjoyed myself no end. But in a disconcerting way, while I could see the superb talents of the director who ... Read More
Rating: - To LIve and Die in L.A.
Excelent crime drama that has it all; Fantastic chase scene, detective mystery, lots of action, good suspense and an unexpected ending.
Rating: - Old but really good!
If you like William Peterson, here is your chance to see him when he was a
whole lot younger. He is still cute but in To Live and Die in L.A., he was
HOT. Interesting movie, lots of twists to hold your attention, too. This
movie has the BEST chase scene ever. The French Connection had a good
chase scene, but this one is GREAT. Going the wrong way an a ramp in LA is
too good!
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