Movie Description
Warren Beatty directs and stars in this lavish adaptation of Chester Gould's famous comic strip. Against a stylized and solid color backdrop of 1930s Chicago, straight-laced, square-jawed, detective hero Dick Tracy battles gangster Big Boy Caprice -- and temptation in the form of blonde bombshell Breathless Mahoney. Dick's long-time girlfriend Tess Trueheart and a feisty street urchin are on hand to offer support. With songs by Stephen Sondheim, Madonna as Breathless Mahoney, and a vast array of cartoon villains -- Mumbles, Pruneface, Lips, Flattop -- brought to life by a glittering cast of stars.
| Credits | | Cast: | Charles Durning, Dick Van Dyke, Dustin Hoffman, Estelle Parsons, Madonna, Mandy Patinkin, R.G. Armstrong, William Forsythe |
Notes
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Stereo - French
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus, Filmed in Los Angeles, California.
Began shooting February 1, 1989; completed early June 1989.
Released theatrically in the USA June 15, 1990, along with the short cartoon "Rollercoaster Rabbit."
Released on video December 18, 1990.
Film used Cinema Digital Sound (CD quality sound) for the first time.
Budget estimate $25-30 million.
Rated BBFC PG by the British Board of Film Classification.
Editorial Reviews
"...A visual knockout..."
Rolling Stone - p.41 - Peter Travers (07/12/1990)
"...It really gets under your skin..."
USA Today - p.4D - Mike Clark
"...DICK TRACY is a great uninterrupted grin....Oddball and matchless..."
New York Times - p.C1 - Vincent Canby (06/15/1990)
"...DICK TRACY is brash, irresistible fun. Warren Beatty's vision of a comic strip on film comes in paint-box bright colors with nicely irreverent dialogue....It's a film of enormous style..."
Los Angeles Times - Sheila Benson (06/10/1990)
Awards
1990Academy AwardsBest Original SongStephen Sondheim
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