Neil McCauley 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. Vincent Hanna is a lieutenant of detectives in LAPD'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.

When McCauley and his team rob an armored van of bearer bonds, 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 failures and dreams, betrayals and vendettas generate clues Hanna is able to discover. Soon, Hanna and his detectives and McCauley and his crime partners are driven towards a collision from which only some will survive.

Directed by
Michael Mann

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

Production Co.
Forward Pass, Inc.
New Regency Films, Inc.

Produced by
Arnon Milchan
Pieter Jan Brugge
Art Linson

Studio
Warner Bros.

Writer
Michael Mann

Music
Elliot Goldenthal