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The Public Eye
Directed by
Howard Franklin
R
1992
1h 39m
Crime
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6.5
61%
50%
6.2
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In the early 1940s, an infamous New York paparazzo gets an assignment from a club owner to do a background search on a mysterious gangster, which leads him down a very dangerous path.
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Cast of The Public Eye
Joe Pesci
Leon Bernstein
Barbara Hershey
Kay Levitz
Stanley Tucci
Sal
Jerry Adler
Arthur Nabler
Dominic Chianese
Spoleto
Richard Riehle
Officer O'Brien
Max Brooks
Teen at Thompson Street
Richard Schiff
Photographer - Thompson Street
Laura Cerón
Puerto Rican Woman
Christian Stolte
Ambulance Attendant
Jack Denbo
Photo Editor
Ellen McElduff
Lonely Woman at Drugstore
Bryan Travis Smith
Young Cop
Chuck Gillespie
Cop - Puerto Rican Tenement
Marge Kotlisky
Rineman's Receptionist
Timothy Hendrickson
Richard Rineman
Del Close
H.R. Rineman
Henry Bolzon
Photographer at Cafe
Jared Harris
Danny the Doorman
Kevin Dorsey
Singer
The Public Eye Ratings & Reviews
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
The Public Eye's investigation into the nature of this opportunistic artist is secondary to the film's mystery, which, though modeled after popular neo-noirs, never quite achieves the same level of interest.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
The Public Eye is the sort of film that frankly never had any chance of becoming a financial success (it grossed a paltry $3 million against a $15 million budget), yet it's good enough that we're thankful the studio elected to waste money on it anyway.
Hartford Courant
Malcolm Johnson
Essentially this is an undeveloped concept, an assorted collection of characters in search of an author. A true sign of its problems emerges from the increasing sense that until the end, the most explosive moments are the popping of flash bulbs.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Plays as if a moody 1940's noir film.
Newsweek
David Ansen
The tale's mournful B-movie romanticism-and Pesci's introspective, crablike performance gets under your skin. In its moody, daffy way, The Public Eye gives off an authentic reek of artistic compulsion.
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Emanuel Levy
A period noir thriller, in which Pesci plays one of his few lead roles as Leon (Bernzy)Bernstein, a magician behind the lens with an eye for life's darker side blessed with the soul of an artist
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There are moments in The Public Eye that made me think a little about Casablanca, especially the earlier scenes when Bogart is still mad at Bergman. Higher praise is not necessary.
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