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Heat is a crime thriller/drama film released on December 15, 1995. It is written and directed by Michael Mann, and its ensemble cast includes Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Ashley Judd, and Natalie Portman.

De Niro plays a thief named Neil McCauley who is a calm, methodical loner and an introvert, while Pacino's cop Vincent Hanna is volatile and outspoken while leaving an increasingly doomed marriage behind him.

The film is a remake of L.A. Takedown, a 1989 made-for-television film also written and directed by Mann.

Cast

Al Pacino
Lt. Vincent Hanna
Robert De Niro
Neil McCauley
Val Kilmer
Chris Shiherlis
Jon Voight
Nate
Tom Sizemore
Michael Cheritto
Danny Trejo
Trejo
Diane Venora
Justine Hanna
Amy Brenneman
Eady
Ashley Judd
Charlene Shiherlis
Mykelti Williamson
Sergeant Drucker
Wes Studi
Detective Casals
Ted Levine
Bosko
Dennis Haysbert
Donald Breedan
William Fichtner
Roger Van Zant
Natalie Portman
Lauren Gustafson
Tom Noonan
Kelso
Kevin Gage
Waingro

Plot summary

Neil McCauley (De Niro) is an expert thief who has centered his life around the creed "Do not allow anything into your life that you cannot walk out on in thirty seconds flat if you spot the heat around the corner." He and his crew, including compulsive gambler Chris Shiherlis (Kilmer) and family man Michael Cheritto (Sizemore), take part in an elaborate robbery of an armored car. They escape with US$1.6 million in bearer bonds, leaving the armored car's guards dead. Although originally planned as a mere robbery, they quickly reason to leave no witnesses after a new cohort, Waingro (Gage), impulsively executes one of the injured guards.

Enter Vincent Hanna (Pacino), one of the top detectives in the Robbery Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Vincent and his team immediately go to work, utilizing a number of leads and informants to bring the perpetrators to justice. Meanwhile, McCauley is busy planning another major score—an audicious bank heist with a US$12 million paycheck.

As the plans are being made, the movie explores the personal lives of both men, and how their commitment to being the best in their respective positions has all but destroyed their personal lives - McCauley lives a lonely, barren existence, having severed all links and emotional attachments in furtherence of his creed, but has started to thaw as a result of meeting Eady (Amy Brenneman), a shy librarian. Meanwhile, Hanna's current marriage - his third - to Justine (Diane Venora) is clearly in the last stages of a breakdown - although he is close to and clearly cares dearly for his troubled stepdaughter Lauren (Natalie Portman).

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