CAST AND CREW

DIRECTOR
Michael Mann

WRITING CREDITS
Michael Mann

CAST
Al Pacino Lt. Vincent Hanna
Robert De Niro Neil McCauley
Val Kilmer Chris Shiherlis
Jon Voight Nate
Tom Sizemore Michael Cheritto
Diane Venora Justine Hanna
Amy Brenneman Eady
Ashley Judd Charlene Shiherlis
Mykelti Williamson Sergeant Drucker
Wes Studi Detective Casals
Ted Levine Bosko
Dennis Haysbert Donald Breedan
William Fichtner Roger Van Zant
Natalie Portman Lauren Gustafson
Tom Noonan Kelso

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Neil McCauley, played by Robert De Niro, is a hardened professional criminal who has spent many years behind bars and is determined never to go back. A highly focused loner, McCauley's protection is that there's nothing in his life that he can't walk away from in 30 seconds flat. He and his crew -- Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer), Michael Cheritto (Tom Sizemore) and Nate (Jon Voight) -- are committing a series of well-planned, high-number robberies in and around Los Angeles.

Al Pacino plays Vincent Hanna, a lieutenant of detectives in L.A.P.D.'s Robbery/Homicide Division who searches through the remains of a crime for the scent of his prey and then hunts them down. Those are the elevated experiences of his life -- the rest is disorder. Divorced twice, Hanna's third marriage is precarious as he focuses all his attention on Neil McCauley.

Neil McCauley and his team rob an armored van of bearer bonds. Three guards are killed; Vincent Hanna takes over the case. McCauley and his crew are nearly impossible to identify, let alone track down. But Hanna's network of informants and the details of each man's life - wives, wives' lovers, failures and dreams, betrayals and vendettas -- generate clues Hanna is able to discover. Soon, Vincent Hanna and his detectives and Neil McCauley and his crime partners are driven towards a collision from which only some will survive. "Heat" examines the characters of two extraordinarily driven men whose actions tear through the fabric of Los Angeles.