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21/09/1990 Drama, Thriller, Crime 1h 55m
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Overview

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

  1. Joel Coen

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Gabriel Byrne

    Tom Reagan

  2. Marcia Gay Harden

    Verna

  3. John Turturro

    Bernie Bernbaum

  4. Jon Polito

    Johnny Caspar

  5. J.E. Freeman

    Eddie Dane

  6. Albert Finney

    Leo

  7. Mike Starr

    Frankie

  8. Al Mancini

    Tic-Tac

  9. Steve Buscemi

    Mink

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2014-11-13
The answer my friend is a hat blowing in the wind.

The Coen brothers craft a loving homage to gangster pictures of yore with splendid results. Essentially the plot has Gabriel Byrne as a good - bad guy caught between two rival gangster factions. It's a standard story line that is still providing cinematic water for many a film maker these days, but shot through the Coen prism, with literary astuteness holding court, it's a genre piece of considerable class. A picture in fact that gets better and better with further viewings.

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$14,000,000.00

Revenue
$5,080,409.00

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