Which actor plays Frank Pierce in Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead?

Nicolas Cage plays Frank Pierce in Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead.

Released in 1999, the film follows Pierce, a burned-out New York City paramedic working overnight shifts in Manhattan. The story takes place over several nights and explores exhaustion, guilt, compassion, and the psychological pressure of emergency medical work.

The film is based on Joe Connelly’s 1998 novel of the same name. Paul Schrader wrote the screenplay, making Bringing Out the Dead another collaboration between Schrader and Scorsese after Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.

The cast also includes Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, and Tom Sizemore. The movie is sometimes grouped with Scorsese’s New York films because its nocturnal streets, intense subjective style, and morally troubled central character connect it to his earlier urban dramas.