With popular film podcast Blank Check running through the filmography of Martin Scorsese, we figured we’d offer a few screenings of one of our deep cut favorites, which found Marty teaming up for the fourth and final time with TAXI DRIVER screenwriter Paul Schrader for a pitch-black, live-wire Nicolas Cage misadventure through turn-of-the-millennium New York.

After a disheartening and haunting career wears him down, New York City paramedic Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage) begins to collapse under the strain of saving lives and witnessing deaths. Through the course of a few nights, three co-workers (John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore) accompany Pierce as he grasps for sanity and pushes to be fired. Before Pierce falls off the edge, he still has a hope when he forms a friendship with a victim’s daughter (Patricia Arquette).

“An intense, volatile film full of sorrow and wild, mordant humor.” – New York Times

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