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Rating:

7.8/10

Director: Terry Gillian

Cast

Johnny Depp Raoul Duke

Benicio Del Toro Dr Gonzo

Tobey Maguire Hitchhiker

Ellen Barkin Waitress at North Star Cafe

Storyline.

Storyline:• The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal

psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.

• Budget• $18,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend• $4,335,095 (USA) (25 May 1998) (1,126 Screens)

£206,498 (UK) (15 November 1998) (117 Screens)

Director: Brian De Palma

Rating:

•8.3/10

Cast:

Al Pacino ... Tony Montana

Steven Bauer ... Manny Ribera

Michelle Pfeiffer ... Elvira Hancock

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ... Gina Montana

Robert Loggia ... Frank Lopez

Miriam Colon ... Mama Montana

Storyline:

• After years of diplomatic silence between the United States and Cuba, Castro opens the port of Mariel Harbor, Cuba, to thousands emigrating to the United States in search of the American dream. Shrewdly, Castro also unlocks the over packed prisons, allowing hordes of criminals to join the refugees. Tony Montana, a small time hood, is one of them. In Florida, Montana connects with gangster Frank Lopez, and guns his way through the sun washed streets of Miami where he finds power, wealth and passion. He kills Lopez and marries his mistress, Elvira. Montana, better known as "Scarface," soon becomes the leader of a bloody cocaine-smuggling empire but at a terrible cost to his sister, Gina and his loyal friend, Manny. However, like that of others before him, Montana's reign is brief and a violent end is guaranteed as rival gangster compete to become the next drug lord.

• Budget:• $25,000,000 (estimated) • Opening Weekend:• $242,821 (USA) (19 September 2003) • Gross:• $656,161 (USA) (26 September 2003)

Director: David O. Russell

Rating:

•7.9/10

Cast:

Mark Wahlberg ... Micky Ward

Christian Bale ... Dicky Eklund

Amy Adams ... Charlene Fleming

Melissa Leo ... Alice Ward

Storyline:

• The Fighter is a 2010 biographical sports drama film directed by David O. Russell, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo.

• Budget:• $25,000,000 (estimated) • Opening Weekend:• £2,118,140 (UK) (4 February 2011) • Gross:• $93,571,803 (USA) (25 March 2011)