Hackford, Taylor. <br/><br/>
The Devil's Advocate (1997) 

 - USA  Germany  Warner Bros. Pictures  1998 
 - 1 DVD 
 - 144 min. 
<br/><br/> A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself. 
<br/><br/>Andrew Neiderman  Andrew Neiderman 
<br/><br/> Too old for Hamlet and too young for Lear--what's an ambitious actor to do? Play the Devil, of course. Jack Nicholson did it in The Witches of Eastwick; Robert De Niro did it in Angel Heart (as Louis Cyphre--get it?). In The Devil's Advocate Al Pacino takes his turn as the great Satan, and clearly relishes his chance to raise hell. He's a New York lawyer, of course, by the name of John Milton, who recruits a hotshot young Florida attorney (Keanu Reeves) to his firm and seduces him with tempting offers of power, sex, and money. Think of the story as a twist on John Grisham's The Firm, with the corporate evil made even more explicit. Reeves is wooden, and therefore doesn't seem to have much of a soul to lose, but he's really just our excuse to meet the devil. Pacino's the main attraction, gleefully showing off his--and the Antichrist's--chops at perpetrating menace and mayhem. The film was directed by Taylor Hackford (Against All Odds, Dolores Claiborne), who provides alternate-track commentary for the movie itself, plus a dozen deleted scenes. Also note: due to a settlement with artist Frederick Hart over the movie's use of a sculpture resembling his Ex Nihilo in Washington's National Cathedral, future releases of the film will be altered. 
<br/><br/><br/>Languages : English, German, Spanish <br/>Subtitles : English, Turkish 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Thriller<br/>Drama
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DVD 000480