Mad Dog and Glory (1993)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

John McNaughton

Writer (WGA):

Richard Price (written by)

Release Date:

5 March 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

A cop who'd rather be an artist. A mobster who'd rather be a comic. And a woman who'd rather be anywhere but between them.

Plot:

After his life is saved by a lonely cop, a mobster who moonlights as a standup comic, provides the cop with a friend: a beautiful woman.

Plot Keywords:

Police | Bar | Police Officer | Gangster | Coffee

Cast

Robert De Niro	...	Wayne 'Mad Dog' Dobie
Uma Thurman	...	Glory
Bill Murray	...	Frank Milo
David Caruso	...	Mike
Mike Starr	...	Harold
Tom Towles	...	Andrew the Beater
Kathy Baker	...	Lee
Derek Annunciation	...	Shooter (as Derek Anunciation)
Doug Hara	...	Driver
Evan Lionel	...	Dealer in Car
Anthony Cannata	...	Pavletz
J.J. Johnston	...	Shanlon
Guy Van Swearingen	...	Cop
Jack Wallace	...	Tommy the Bartender
Richard Belzer	...	M.C. / Comic

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality, language, violence and drug content.

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:14 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | USA:R (certificate #31990) | Portugal:M/16 | South Korea:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Netherlands:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

Robert De Niro was initially offered the role of gangster Frank Milo, but he insisted on playing the timid Wayne instead.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene at the police station where Wayne is typing up a report while he talks to Frank, he uses white-out to correct a mistake. But since he's using a multi-part form, the typo would only be fixed on the top copy.

Quotes:

Frank Milo: [Speaking to MadDog] Hey ossifer, what's the word?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Broken Flowers (2005)

Soundtrack:

That Old Black Magic

One of the great ones

Time and time again I try to see movie comedy try to transcend its material to create some sort of comic lunacy. They take all their characters and exagerate them to the point of being caricatures instead. MAD DOG & GLORY could very well have done that to Milo, Glory and Wayne. But instead of making a mockery out of their world for simple laughs and guffaws, director McNaughton plays the comedy at human level, in turn making this little gem something different. Every project John McNaughton takes on seems to be effectively low-keyed. He made HENRY one of the most frightening and violent films of the 90's by playing down the glorification of violence. He did it this time with the comedic material in MAD DOG & GLORY, making us laugh with its characters, and not at them. As for the acting? Impeccable.