Lansky R
The Mind That Organised Crime
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DVD-R Details
- 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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Dreyfuss | |
Performer: | Eric Roberts, Illeana Douglas, Beverly D'Angelo, Max Perlich, Octavia Spencer, Anthony LaPaglia & Ryan Merriman | |
Directed by | John McNaughton | |
Edited by | Elena Maganini | |
Screenwriting by | David Mamet | |
Composition by | George S. Clinton | |
Produced by | Fred Caruso | |
Director of Photography: | John A. Alonzo |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
What we are left with in ''Lansky'' is an affable buddy movie with aspirations, or maybe they are just affectations.
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New York Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
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.
Product Description:
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.
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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