Mobsters
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| Mobsters | |
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 Poster for Mobsters. |
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| Directed by | Michael Karbelnikoff |
| Produced by | Jim Ballantine Carolyn Bates |
| Written by | Michael Mahern Nicholas Kazan |
| Starring | Patrick Dempsey Christian Slater Costas Mandylor Richard Grieco Michael Gambon Anthony Quinn F. Murray Abraham Chris Penn Lara Flynn Boyle |
| Music by | Michael Small |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 26, 1991 |
| Running time | 104 min. |
| Language | English |
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| United States: | R |
Mobsters is a 1991 crime drama detailing the creation of the National Crime Syndicate. Set in New York City during the Prohibition era, it's a (somewhat fictionalized) account of rise of the Five Points Gang: Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. The film focuses primarily on Luciano and Lansky as they engineer their rise from petty criminals and later Bootleggers, eventually becoming the Leaders of the New York Mafia.
Christian Slater (Luciano), Patrick Dempsey (Lansky), Richard Grieco (Siegel), and Costas Mandylor (Costello) star as the epynonymous protagonists; the supporting cast includes F. Murray Abraham as Bootlegger Arnold Rothstein, Anthony Quinn as Joe Masseria, Michael Gambon as Salvatore Maranzano (Salvatore "Faranzano" according to the Internet Movie Database), Chris Penn, and Lara Flynn Boyle as a Flapper/Moll created largely to provide the requisite love interest demanded in typical Hollywood films.
Tagline: "They didn't take orders... they took over".
It begins with Bugsy as he's about to fight some gang members and picks up a gun and fires it in the air at which point Lansky comes in and tells him to drop it then and they run off as Bugsy and Lansky's Friendship goes higher. They take protection money from shops and open up a engineer business and turn successful. It goes to Bugsy's life and as he's in the pub a lady says he has wet ears and he takes it offensively and then follows her down the streets and rapes her. Then we see Lucky come in who tells Lansky to give him protection money and Lansky tells him to go fuck himself.
Lucky likes Lansky and they turn into good friends. They meet Rothstein and so on through their mob life. It turns to 20 years later as Bugsy gets shot and Lucky lives on.
