Knockout gangster yarn from Brian DePalma starring Al Pacino as Hispanic drug dealer Carlito Brigante who runs into all sorts of trouble when he s released from prison and tries to go straight operating a disco club in New York in the 1970s. Sean Penn is his coked-out lawyer compadre and Penelope Ann Miller is the exotic dancer he loves. With John Leguizamo Ingrid Rogers Luis Guzmán James Rebhorn.