Carlito Brigante Paradise". Brigante has been portrayed by two different actors, by Al Pacino in the 1993 film "Carlito's Way", and by Jay Hernandez in the prequel "". Carlito Brigante Carlito Brigante is an eponymous character and the antihero of "Carlito's Way" and "After Hours", novels by Edwin Torres. Torres has stated that Brigante was a combination of several men he knew in his street days, as well as a compilation of several of his own personal characteristics. Born in 1930 in Spanish Harlem, his parents were Puerto Ricans with his father being of Corsican ancestry. His father abandoned his family and
Revolution (1985 film) Revolution (1985 film) Revolution is a 1985 British historical drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Robert Dillon, and starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland and Nastassja Kinski. The film stars Pacino as a New York fur trapper who involuntarily gets enrolled in the Revolutionary forces during the American Revolutionary War. "Revolution" received a great deal of negative reviews upon release, and was a box office bomb; its release was delayed in Pacino's native New York City. Due to the disappointment, Pacino took a four-year hiatus from films until 1989's "Sea of Love". Fur trapper Tom Dobb unwillingly participates in