Watch Carlito's Way: Rise To Power (2005) Free Online

Release Date: 2005

Cast: Giancarlo Esposito, Jay Hernandez, Michael Kelly, Jessica Leigh Johnson, Jaime Lee Kirchner, Mtume Gant, Juan Carlos Hernández, Jaime Tirelli, Sean Combs, Nelson Vasquez, Eric Nieves, Jaclyn DeSantis ...MORE

Cast: Giancarlo Esposito, Jay Hernandez, Michael Kelly, Jessica Leigh Johnson, Jaime Lee Kirchner, Mtume Gant, Juan Carlos Hernández, Jaime Tirelli, Sean Combs, Nelson Vasquez, Eric Nieves, Jaclyn DeSantis, Burt Young, Casper Martinez, Domenick Lombardozzi, Mario Van Peebles, Luis Guzmán ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Crime Drama, Action, Period piece, Gangster

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power is a 2005 prequel to Brian De Palma's 1993 film Carlito's Way, based on the novel Carlito's Way by Edwin Torres. The previous film was based on the Torres novel After Hours, but was retitled to avoid it being confused with Martin Scorsese's 1985 film of the same name. The film was written and directed by Michael Bregman, who produced the first film. His father, Martin Bregman, produced both films. The film was released in theaters in New York in Los Angeles one day prior to being released on DVD. Carlito's Way: Rise to Power stars Jay Hernandez as Carlito... MORE

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power is a 2005 prequel to Brian De Palma's 1993 film Carlito's Way, based on the novel Carlito's Way by Edwin Torres. The previous film was based on the Torres novel After Hours, but was retitled to avoid it being confused with Martin Scorsese's 1985 film of the same name. The film was written and directed by Michael Bregman, who produced the first film. His father, Martin Bregman, produced both films. The film was released in theaters in New York in Los Angeles one day prior to being released on DVD. Carlito's Way: Rise to Power stars Jay Hernandez as Carlito Brigante, the character played by Al Pacino in the first film, and chronicles Brigante's rise as a heroin drug czar in 1960s Harlem, New York. The film also features Mario Van Peebles, Michael Joseph Kelly, Luis Guzmán as Nacho Reyes (Guzmán being the only actor to appear in both Carlito's Way films, although as different characters), Jaclyn DeSantis, Sean Combs, Burt Young, and Domenick Lombardozzi. The story begins in the 1960s with three inmates in a New York prison — Earl (Van Peebles), Rocco (Kelly), and Carlito (Hernandez) — controlling their criminal empire within their cell. Upon their release, LESS