THE PLOT:
All Tess Trueheart wants is to settle down to a quiet life with her boyfriend, detective Dick Tracy. But there's something pretty rotten going on in town, with someone pretty rotten behind it, and Tracy has his hands full with the likes of villain Big Boy Caprice and with the almost irresistable Breathless Mahoney.
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RIK - I
saw this when it came out in 1990 and I'm ashamed to say I'd forgotton it. If
you can find it watch it! It's a knockout gangster spoof which justly won 3
oscars. One, not surprisingly, for it's make up, one for art direction, and one
for it's songs.
Before all this CGI stuff you had to use make up: Left : The bad guys / Right: unrecognisable Al Pacino as Big Boy Caprice
Pacino accepts an American Comedy award for his work on the film.
A wonderful film with a great story as well as great action. Director star Warren Beatty manages to give Tracy (the ultimate square jawed cop) a hidden heart which hovers on the brink of sentimentality but never falls in, even in the face of Charlie Korsmo's "Kid" a street boy Tracy has saved from the dreaded orphanage who happily spends half the film saving him and the other half winding him up.
L to R: The Kid and Tracy / Madonna's slinking Breathless Mahoney refuses to testify / Baseball?
Madonna puts in a great turn as the sultry club singer Breathless Mahoney who is "owned" by Big Boy but yearns for Tracey and sing's the 40's style songs up a storm. All in all a great no brain film, wonderful wind down material. Featuring a host of stars and old faithfuls in set chewing cameos including:
William Forsythe // Glenne Headly // Seymour Cassel // Charles Durning // John Shuck // Charles Fleischer // Mandy Patinkin // Paul Sorvino // James Tolkan // Dick Van Dyke // Colm Meany // Chatherine O'Hara // Micheal J Pollard and more.