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Scarface is a 1983 motion picture directed by Brian de Palma and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, a fictional Cuban refugee who comes to Florida in 1980 as a result of the Mariel Boatlift. Kicked out of Cuba for being an assassin, Tony becomes a gangster against the backdrop of the 1980s cocaine boom; the movie chronicles his meteoric rise to the top of Miami's criminal underworld and subsequent downfall. The film is loosely based on the 1932 fictionalized Al Capone biopic, Scarface
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Plot

In 1980, young Cuban hitman Tony Montana, the son of a Cuban woman and an American man, is kicked out of his country during the infamous Mariel boatlift, in which Cuban president Fidel Castro exiled thousands of his deadliest prisoners to Florida. There, Tony and several of his old prison friends, including his partner-in-crime, Manny, find themselves being held in a detention camp beneath a highway while the U.S. government attempts to figure out what to do with the fugitives. Luck comes for them when they are hired by a Miami drug dealer, Frank Lopez, to murder a former Castro loyalist who has since fallen from favor. In exchange for carrying out the assassination, Lopez promises to obtain US immigration green cards for Manny, Tony, and another associate named Angel. They eagerly agree and stab the man to death during a detention camp riot.

They go to work washing dishes at a Cuban food stand in Miami and, in the midst of daydreaming about being cocaine dealers, are approached by Lopez henchman Omar Suarez to unload a boatload of marijuana. Tony thinks his offer is insulting, so the pair are then offered $5,000 to complete a drug deal with a Colombian couple. The deal goes sour. Tony and one of his crew, Angel, are ambushed by the Colombians, who want to steal the buy money and keep the drugs for themselves. Tony is forced to watch while Angel is dismembered limb by limb with a chainsaw. Just as Tony is about to suffer the same fate, Manny bursts in to save him, killing one of the Colombians. Tony chases the other one outside and kills him in the middle of a crowded South Beach street. It's Tony's lucky day. Not only does he survive the slaughterhouse hotel room, he now has possession of the cocaine and the buy money he was to use for its purchase. He turns both the cash and the "yeyo" cocaine over to Lopez, who, seeing that Tony has a knack for completing the dirty work, immediately hires Tony and Manny as enforcers in his criminal hierarchy. Tony thus begins his meteoric rise up through the ranks of the Miami cocaine underworld in bloody fashion. He re-establishes contact with his sister, Gina, who eventually begins seeing Manny against Tony's wishes.

While accompaning Omar to Bolivia, Tony begins to show his defiance to Lopez's authority when he nearly makes a deal with Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa. The full-blown conflict between Lopez and Tony over this matter results in Lopez's attempted assassination of Tony; however, it fails and in rapid fashion Tony kills Lopez and his other heirs in a coup, taking over Lopez's business and girlfriend, Elvira, for his wife. In control of most of Miami's cocaine ring, his deal with Sosa allows "Montana, Co." to expand across the nation and bring in millions of dollars monthly. Tony buys "the world" as he stated earlier to Manny, getting a huge new mansion, new cars, new security, new clothes, and so on. However, his addiction to his own product, his questionable love for Gina, and his careless neglect of Lopez's earlier advice of "playing straight" ensure that his period on top is short-lived. His criticism of his wife's addiction rather than trying to help her clean up results in the destruction of his marriage. His overbearing protection of Gina results in his murder of Manny when it is revealed the two secretly got married.

While exchanging $1+ million in cash into checks, Miami police inform him it was a sting operation, resulting in his arrest and future trial for tax evasion. No matter how much money Tony throws in the face of his lawyer and the justice system, he can't buy his way out of the inevitable. Sosa and several other Bolivian elites come to Tony and offer to help him out through their connections in Washington D.C. In exchange, Tony must help them rid themselves of their own problem, a Latin-American journalist who is planning to expose to the American public the extent of corruption in Bolivia, which includes Sosa and his comrades. While on the assassination mission to set and detonate a car bomb, Tony gets cold feet when the journalist's wife and two little girls enter the car with him. After Tony refuses to allow the detonation of the car bomb and kills Sosa's aide, Sosa promises to get back at Tony. While Tony is high on cocaine at his mansion and not watching his security cameras one night, Sosa's army arrives and breaks into Tony's mansion. Tony's security and his famous M16 rifle with a M203 Grenade Launcher attachment are no match for the Sosan Army.

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