Lansky R

The Mind That Organised Crime
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 26, 2012
  • Originally Released: 1999
  • Label: HBO Archives

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User Ratings: 95
After so many Cosa Nostrums out of Hollywood tending to suggest that however violent, mobsters are also cute -- picking up tips from previous films on how to patter and swag; doing the Tarantino -- it's a relief to hear them in their brute banality. Full Review
New York Magazine/Vulture
Feb 5, 2018
What we are left with in ''Lansky'' is an affable buddy movie with aspirations, or maybe they are just affectations. Full Review
New York Times
Dec 1, 2017

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A new version of an old story - the great American dream. Lansky tells of a young emigrant's rise from poverty to riches through hard-edged business sense ... and a ruthless ability to murder anyone who gets in his way.

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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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  • Sales Rank: 26,199
  • UPC: 883316487877
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