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Lansky (1999) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 27, 1999
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language, violence and nudity.
Running Time
1 hour, 33 minutes
Country USA
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Gangsters, Biography
Plot: LANSKY tells the true story of a young immigrant's ascent from poverty to almost unimaginable riches through hard-edged business sense and a ruthless ability to murder anyone who ever got in his way. Richard Dreyfuss stars as Meyer Lansky, a genius white-collar criminal on the run from the FBI. As he hops from country to country in search of asylum, he recounts his years as a dirt-poor youth in New York City's Lower East Side (a vibrant and dangerous multiracial ghetto in the early 1900s); as a rising gang member with such fearsome allies as Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel; and as a wizard of crooked accounting who became one of the most influential figures in the history of American organized crime.Backed by a strong supporting cast (most notably Beverly D’Angelo and Eric Roberts) and sparked by a dynamite David Mamet script, Dreyfuss delivers a powerful and deeply moving performance as the aged mafioso. Produced for HBO, LANSKY did not receive the widespread acclaim it deserved. With LANSKY, director John McNaughton (HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, WILD THINGS) delivers another of his penetrating cinematic investigations of the teeming shadow world undergirding late-20th-century American life.
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| Directed by |
John McNaughton
Wild Things, Mad Dog and Glory, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer |
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 | Max Perlich
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Blow, Cliffhanger |
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 | Matthew Settle
U-571, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood |
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 | Ryan Merriman
The Ring Two, Halloween: Resurrection, Final Destination 3 |
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George S. Clinton
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers in Goldmember |
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