And then there’s Brian De Palma’s Carlito’s Way. Al Pacino—swaggering ... whose crooked lawyer (played, fabulously, by Sean Penn in a perfect approximation of a ’70s man perm) somehow ...

treacherous past in the original Carlito's Way. Then delve into Carlito's early years as he is seduced by the brutal New York underworld in the electrifying prequel Carlito's Way: Rise to Power.