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Release Date: 1991

Cast: Richard Grieco, Christian Slater, Michael Gambon, Patrick Dempsey, Anthony Quinn, Nicholas Sadler, Fyvush Finkel, Costas Mandylor, Jeremy Schoenberg, Chris Penn, Rodney Eastman, F. Murray Abraham ...MORE

Cast: Richard Grieco, Christian Slater, Michael Gambon, Patrick Dempsey, Anthony Quinn, Nicholas Sadler, Fyvush Finkel, Costas Mandylor, Jeremy Schoenberg, Chris Penn, Rodney Eastman, F. Murray Abraham, Lara Flynn Boyle ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Indie, Crime Drama, Action, Period piece, Gangster, Biographical film

Mobsters is a 1991 crime-drama film detailing the creation of the The Commission. Set in New York City, taking place from 1917 to 1931, it is a semi-fictitious account of the rise of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. This highly dramatized film, focuses primarily on Luciano and Lansky. They start as young men victimized by the current mafia. They rise from petty criminals and bootleggers to push aside the old guard of the Mafia and eventually establish The Commission, which set up the New York Mafia into five separate families. Bugsy Siegel... MORE

Mobsters is a 1991 crime-drama film detailing the creation of the The Commission. Set in New York City, taking place from 1917 to 1931, it is a semi-fictitious account of the rise of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. This highly dramatized film, focuses primarily on Luciano and Lansky. They start as young men victimized by the current mafia. They rise from petty criminals and bootleggers to push aside the old guard of the Mafia and eventually establish The Commission, which set up the New York Mafia into five separate families. Bugsy Siegel (Richard Grieco) and Frank Costello (Costas Mandylor) control the physical elements of the operation, while Lucky Luciano (Christian Slater) and Meyer Lansky (Patrick Dempsey) bring up the business end. The film was panned by most critics earning a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Variety Magazine wrote that "'Mobsters' resembles a cart-before-the-horse case of putting marketing ahead of filmmaking, as the seemingly can't-miss premise of teen-heartthrob gangsters gets lost in self-important direction, a shoddy script and muddled storytelling".}} According to Roger Ebert, the movie's violence and LESS