
Saving a Life is the ultimate rush
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Cast
- Nicolas Cage
- Patricia Arquette
- John Goodman
- Ving Rhames
- Tom Sizemore
- Marc Anthony
- Mary Beth Hurt
- Cliff Curtis
- Nestor Serrano
- Aida Turturro
- Sonja Sohn
- Cynthia Roman
- Afemo Omilami
- Cullen O. Johnson
- Arthur J. Nascarella
- Martin Scorsese
- Julyana Soelistyo
- Graciela Lecube
- Marylouise Burke
- Phyllis Somerville
- Mary Diveny
- Tom Riis Farrell
- Aleks Shaklin
- Leonid Citer
- Jesus A. Del Rosario Jr.
- Larry Fessenden
- Bernie Friedman
- Theo Kogan
- Fuschia!
- John Heffernan
- Matthew Maher
- Bronson Dudley
- Marilyn McDonald
- Ed Jupp Jr.
- J. Stanford Hoffman
- Rita Norona Schrager
- Don Berry
- Mtume Gant
- Michael A. Noto
- Omar Scroggins
- Craig muMs Grant
- Michael Kenneth Williams
- Andy Davoli
- Charlene Hunter
- Jesse Malin
- Harper Simon
- Joseph Monroe Webb
- Jon Abrahams
- Charis Michelsen
- Lia Yang
- Antone Pagán
- Melissa Marsala
- Betty Miller
- Rosemary Gomez
- Luis Rodriguez
- Sylva Kelegian
- Frank Ciornei
- Catrina Ganey
- Jennifer Lane Newman
- John Bal
- Raymond Cassar
- Tom Cappadona
- Jack O'Connell
- Randy Foster
- Richard Spore
- James Hanlon
- Chris Edwards
- Mark Giordano
- Michael Mulheren
- David Zayas
- Terry Serpico
- Floyd Resnick
- Megan Leigh
- David Vasquez
- Judy Reyes
- Joseph P. Reidy
- Queen Latifah
- Erica Bamforth
- Peju Bamgboshe
- Carolyn Campbell
- Michael Carbonaro
- Joe Connelly
- Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas
- George F. Miller
- Christine J. Noble
- Davell j Owens
- Brian Smyj
Plots
Haunted by the patients he failed to save, an extremely burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three fraught and turbulent nights.
An Easter story. Frank is a Manhattan medic, working graveyard in a two-man ambulance team. He's burned out, exhausted, seeing ghosts, especially a young woman he failed to save six months' before, and no longer able to save people: he brings in the dead. We follow him for three nights, each with a different partner: Larry, who thinks about dinner, Marcus, who looks to Jesus, and Tom, who wallops people when work is slow. Frank befriends the daughter of a heart victim he brings in; she's Mary, an ex-junkie, angry at her father but now hoping he'll live. Frank tries to get fired, tries to quit, and keeps coming back, to work and to Mary, in need of his own rebirth.
48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.