The first film — released in 1995 and based on the true story of Neil McCauley, who was a criminal hunted down by police officer Chuck Adamson — was directed by Mann and starred Al Pacino ...

by Chicago police officer Chuck Adamson. Heat, the iconic Pacino-De Niro thriller, raked in a whopping $187 million globally against its $60 million budget, marking it as a colossal box-office ...