What is Heat?
Heat is a 1995 American
crime drama film written, produced, and directed by
Michael Mann, starring
Al Pacino,
Robert De Niro, and
Val Kilmer.
[3] De Niro plays Neil McCauley, a seasoned professional robber and Pacino plays Lt. Vincent Hanna, an
LAPD robbery-homicide detective tracking down Neil's crew after a botched heist leaves three security guards dead. The story is based on the former
Chicago police officer
Chuck Adamson's pursuit during the 1960s of a criminal named McCauley, after whom De Niro's character is named.
[4] Heat is a remake by Mann of an unproduced television series he had worked on, the pilot of which was released as the TV movie
L.A. Takedown in 1989.
Heat was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 15, 1995 and became a critical and commercial success, grossing $67 million in the United States and a total $187 million worldwide against a $60 million budge
