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| Elle Fanning | ... | ||
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Remo Girone | ... |
Maso Pescatore
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| Brendan Gleeson | ... |
Thomas Coughlin
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| Robert Glenister | ... |
Albert White
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| Matthew Maher | ... |
RD Pruitt
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| Chris Messina | ... |
Dion Bartolo
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| Sienna Miller | ... | ||
| Miguel | ... |
Esteban Suarez
(as Miguel J. Pimentel)
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| Zoe Saldana | ... | ||
| Chris Cooper | ... |
Chief Figgis
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| Titus Welliver | ... |
Tim Hickey
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| Max Casella | ... |
Digger Pescatore
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| Christian Clemenson | ... |
Ritz Investor
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| J.D. Evermore | ... |
Virgil Beauregard
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Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying... Written by Anonymous
Actor/writer/director Ben Affleck tries his hand at a period piece in this ambitious crime saga beginning in the 1920s Prohibition Era. Joe Coughlinthe son of a renowned Boston police officeris a small-time crook looking to make a name for himself in the ruthless underworld of organized crime. After a series of tragic circumstances, he relocates to the South to become the frontman/muscle for an Italian mafia bootlegging operation, but quickly gets plunged into the seedy, seductive world of money, power, greed, and corruption. Intriguing at first, with tense moments of action and character interactions, but goes on too long by following too many unrelated story threads, features ineffective casting in key roles, has too many familiar elements, and concludes in pat, sanctimonious fashion. Despite some flavorful ingredients, Affleck's attempt to create a potent, moralizing amalgam of The Town and The Godfather doesn't quite succeed. **½