TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hackford,Taylor
AU  - Al Pacino,
AU  - Charlize Theron
AU  - Connie Nielsen
AU  - Craig T Nelson
AU  - Jeffrey Jones
AU  - Judith Ivey
AU  - Keanu Reeves
TI  - The Devil's Advocate (1997)
AV  - DVD 000480 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - USA, Germany
PB  - Warner Bros. Pictures
KW  - Thriller
KW  - Drama
N1  - A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself; Andrew Neiderman
N2  - 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
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