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Podcast: Comfort Films Podcast
Episode: Comfort Films 70: Heat (1995)
Description: For the second week of our Comfort Crime month, John and Georgia deep dive into the Los Angeles underworld with Michael Mann's 1995 epic cops and robbers movie, Heat. Β This movie brings you so far into the symbiotic relationship between law enforcement and crooks that it's difficult to know what side you're on. Β We discuss the real life story of Chicago detective Chuck Adamson, whose coffee break with career criminal Neil McCauley inspired Mann's film, the iconic first-ever onscreen scene between acting heavyweights Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro, the many parallelisms between Hanna and McCauley, Michael Mann's collaboration with celebrated ci...