Sentences with phrase «undercover cop billy»

Undercover cop Billy Costigan (LEONARDO DiCAPRIO) infiltrates Boston's Irish mob, led by Frank Costello (JACK NICHOLSON).

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Billy Costigan is an undercover cop, a member of the law - abiding branch of a family with a host of criminal contacts.

In «The Departed,» Scorsese once again puts us on the mean streets of... Boston... to tell the story of Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio), an undercover cop given the difficult and dangerous task of getting tight with Irish mob boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson).

Meanwhile, another local kid born into a troubled crime family, Billy Costigan (DiCaprio, Catch Me If You Can), also tries to put his past behind him by becoming a cop, but he is quickly tagged and sent to do undercover work as a mole for the police force, working his way up the criminal ladder until he finally arrives as part of Costello's inner sanctum.

Even in fine Christmas season films from the US, Santa Claus has been tarnished with a cynical brush that paints him as a rather desperate loser or out - and - out nutcase — Gene Hackman's undercover cop Santa in William Friedkin's The French Connection (1970); Dan Aykroyd's smashed Santa in John Landis» Trading Places (1983); and the one - two combination of cinema's worst shopping mall Santas, Jeff Gillen in Bob Clark's A Christmas Story (1983) and Billy Bob Thornton in Terry Zwigoff's bad - taste, big - heart classic Bad Santa (2003).

Simultaneously, the sneaky cops put one of their own — Billy Costigan (DiCaprio) undercover in the Irish Mafia to finally get the evidence they need to nail Costello and his crew.