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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. 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. 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...