

Dick Tracy
Their turf. Their game. Their rules. They didn't count on HIS law...
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
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6.2/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $47M
- Box office
- $103.7M
- Language
- English
- martial arts
- corruption
- fight
- gangster
- crime fighter
- investigation
- villain
- based on comic
- film noir
- organized crime
- one man army
- criminal
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremierePGWoodstock, Illinois13 Jun 1990
- PremierePGLos Angeles, California / Orlando, Florida14 Jun 1990
- TheatricalPG15 Jun 1990
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG6 Jul 1990
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG21 Jun 1990
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1227 Sept 1990
FranceFR
- TheatricalU26 Sept 1990
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1227 Sept 1990
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1220 Dec 1990
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG6 Jul 1990
JapanJP
- TheatricalG24 Dec 1990
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical125 Oct 1990
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical19 Jan 1991
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Dick Tracy was released on 15 June 1990.
Audience reviews
5- J7/10
John Chard
3/12/2014
A bit too mellow yellow. Dick Tracy is directed by Warren Beatty and written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. Based on Chester Gould’s comic strip creation of the same name, it stars Beatty, Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly, Dustin Hoffman, Charlie Korsmo, Charles Durning and William Forsythe. Music is by Danny Elfman, with songs by Stephen Sondheim, and cinematography is by Vittorio Storaro. Punk Rock band X-Ray…
- T8/10
talisencrw
8/12/2016
I'm heartily disappointed that this didn't produce sequels. If any fine actor/director of the period was perfect for the role of Dick Tracy, it was Beatty. He does very good work here. It's as if he took Tim Burton's template for 'Batman' and simply adjusted it for his comic-book picture. Madonna isn't bad here either, simply because she's pretending to be Marilyn Monroe, something she'd been wanting to do all of her…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
2/9/2025
Debonair and brightly clad detective “Dick Tracy” (Warren Beatty) is out to stop an all out war breaking out in the city after mobster “Big Boy” (Al Pacino) slays “Lips” (Paul Sorvino) with a view to running the whole show. Part of that cunning plan is to unite all the criminal fraternities and get rid of this pesky cop. Meantime, “Tracy” alights on the permanently hungry “Kid” (Charlie Korsmo) whom he has to look af…
- K8/10
kevin2019
8/15/2025
"Dick Tracy" is an incredibly well paced film and Warren Beatty has done a terrific job in the difficult task of taking an extraordinarily popular comic strip and endeavouring to bring it to life on the screen. He achieves this by having some of the backgrounds (and indeed the city skyline itself) drawn in the comic book style and he also makes the task aesthetically pleasing by using a wonderfully striking and beaut…
- A10/10
AlfaVitaY2K
6/1/2026
Dick Tracy is rooted in real (old-school) criminology: Psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso's theory based on ancient Rome and Greece fear of degenerates that serious criminals are often born degenerates succinctly put in a quote "Sane mind in sane body" and "All degnerates are born criminals, but not all criminals are born degenerates". Physical and mental throwbacks wired for evil. Chester Gould drew those villains acco…
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