Scarface is a
1983 motion picture directed by
Brian de Palma and starring
Al Pacino as
Tony Montana, a
fictional Cuban refugee who comes to
Florida in
1980 as a result of the
Mariel Boatlift. Kicked out of Cuba for being an
assassin, Tony becomes a
gangster against the backdrop of the
1980s cocaine boom; the movie chronicles his meteoric rise to the top of
Miami's criminal underworld and subsequent downfall. The film is loosely based on the
1932 fictionalized
Al Capone biopic,
Scarface.