Directed by:
John McNaughtonScreenplay:
David MametCinematography:
John A. AlonzoComposer:
George S. ClintonCast:
Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Roberts, Max Perlich, Anthony LaPaglia, Beverly D'Angelo, Matthew Settle, Illeana Douglas, Ryan Merriman, Chris Marquette (more)Plots(1)
The mob has many faces, but only one man is behind them all. Emigrating to America as a child, the young Meyer Lansky learns to fight with his wits and always comes out on top - and at a profit. Starting with a small gang, Lansky soon becomes a big-time gangster when, at the height of prohibition, he joins Bugsy Siegal and Lucky Luciano in creating a crime "syndicate" organizing and structuring crime to make it as efficient as any other business in America. But this is a business more openly crooked than most - and more violent. In their struggle to take and maintain power, not only would those mobsters outside the syndicate pay a deadly price - but sometimes even those within. (official distributor synopsis)
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