What is Bringing Out The Dead / Devil In A Blue Dress about?

Double Feature: BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, 1999, Paramount, 121 min. TAXI DRIVER director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader return to the streets of Manhattan - in an ambulance. Nicolas Cage takes the wheel as a burnt-out paramedic haunted by patients he couldn’t save. His partners on the graveyard shift deal with the chaos of the job in varying ways: Ving Rhames appeals to God, while the brutal Tom Sizemore puts his trust in a baseball bat. DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS, 1995, Sony Repertory, 102 min. Dir. Carl Franklin. Adapted from the first of Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins novels, this neo-noir stars Denzel Washington as the private investigator plying his trade in postwar South Central L.A. When DeWitt Albright (a memorably shifty Tom Sizemore) asks Easy to find a missing woman (Jennifer Beals), the detective soon has several murders to solve.

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What is Bringing Out The Dead / Devil In A Blue Dress about?: Double Feature: BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, 1999, Paramount, 121 min. TAXI DRIVER director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader return to the streets of Manhattan - in an ambulance. Nicolas Cage takes the wheel as a burnt-out paramedic haunted by patients he couldn’t save. His partners on the graveyard shift deal with the chaos of the job in varying ways: Ving Rhames appeals to God, while the brutal Tom Sizemore puts his trust in a baseball bat.

DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS, 1995, Sony Repertory, 102 min. Dir. Carl Franklin. Adapted from the first of Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins novels, this neo-noir stars Denzel Washington as the private investigator plying his trade in postwar South Central L.A. When DeWitt Albright (a memorably shifty Tom Sizemore) asks Easy to find a missing woman (Jennifer Beals), the detective soon has several murders to solve.