Sentences with phrase «life mobster»

But as real - life mobster James «Whitey» Bulger, Depp may have found his greatest performance.

The comedy follows two friends who impersonate cops for fun but everything goes wrong when they mess with a real - life mobster.

The film stars Oscar ® nominees Josh Brolin («Milk,» «True Grit») and Ryan Gosling («Half Nelson,» «Drive») as the LAPD's Sgt. John O'Mara and Jerry Wooters, and Academy Award ® winner Sean Penn («Milk,» «Mystic River») as real - life mobster Mickey Cohen.

Not exact matches

That is the same thing, Catholic and atheists are in the same way, following the anti-Chist, living with tha same world, the kindom of Jesus is no of this world, his kindom is based in his apostoles and making diferents ways whitout paganism, idolatry and not asocieted with the famous, the walthty, the politicis, the mobsters, diferent?

This relationship of brothers and friends living on the verge of betrayal was first in Mean Streets, between Charlie, a low - level mobster and Johnny Boy.

Former mobster Michael Franzese tells Justin Brierley how he turned from a life of mafia crime after finding God in prison — and how he now shares... More

My latest release (July 1, 2007) is CULLOTTA — The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster, and Government Witness.

But when these newly - minted «heroes» get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

Synopsis: Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) earns his living as a chauffeur to one of Harlem's leading mobsters.

When Annie is called to serve on a jury for the murder trial of a major mobster, she welcomes the distraction from the isolation of her creative life.

She becomes ensnared in the trap of his gang of con men when she decides to help Billy (Steven Goldstein), a patient who informs her during a session that his life is being threatened by mobsters he owes money to.

(In Spanish and English with subtitles) Exiled (R for sexuality and graphic violence) Set in Macau in 1998, this highly - stylized mobster saga revolves around a couple of hit men (Francis Ng and Anthony Wong Chau - Sang) dispatched from Hong Kong to execute a renegade member (Nick Cheung) of their gang who's just trying to leave his life of crime behind to settle down with his wife (Josie Ho) and newborn.

Before he can start that new life, Pluto has to save his best friend Tony (Jay Mohr) from getting the beat down from a bunch of mobsters.

That remains true with Eastern Promises, in which he reunites with his History of Violence star, Viggo Mortensen, to tell a tale of Russian mobsters living in London.

It also, funnily enough, already portrays the fictional version (via Jack Nicholson) of the real - life person Depp plays: James «Whitey» Bulger, one of America's most notorious mobsters.

Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world.

George O'Brien stars in the title role as Jeffrey Carson, a vacationing movie hero who finds himself in a real - life battle against mobsters.

It looks set to be a busy 2018 for Jordan who was recently reported to have been cast in «Bittersweet life», a remake of the 2005 Korean action thriller, in which he will portray a mobster.

In The Iceman, the film version of his life, smut - bootlegger Kuklinski starts a family with winsome Barbara (a baby - talky Winona Ryder) at the same time mobster Roy DeMeo (Ray Liotta) makes him an enforcer.

But when these newly - minted «heroes» get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they... Read On

Thus, it gradually dawned on an increasingly - paranoid Markopolos that his life was in danger, since Bernie was likely in league with mobsters capable of carrying out a hit.

Director Justin Trefgarne, with the aid of the general public, has managed to bring into life a film based in the UK that tries to be something vastly different to the usual period drama or mobster movie that usually comes out of our fair isle.

But when these newly - minted «heroes» get tangled in a real - life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

Who: Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., Nina Dobrev, Rob Riggle and Andy Garcia What: Two pals dress as police officers for a costume party and become neighborhood sensations, getting tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives.

Scott Cooper's bleak and atmospheric drama about real - life Boston mobster Whitey Bulger ushers in the 2016 awards season.

As real - life Boston mobster Whitey Bulger, Depp buries both his features and his humanity beneath an ice - cold veneer of venality and sociopathy.

Four sequels later, we find the pair still up to their old tricks, although the ex-cop is now with the FBI while the ex-con has just been sentenced to life for murdering a mobster during a heroin sting gone bad.

Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son.

As a mobster's wife, she's used to the cushy life and here she is stuck on a train from Chicago to LA with a tiresome police escort (Charles McGraw) who's making sure she'll testify against the mob.

Swerve (R for violence, profanity, sexuality and nudity) Aussie crime thriller about a Good Samaritan (David Lyons) who ends up on the run from a ruthless hit man (Travis Hitman) and a crooked cop (Jason Clarke) after stopping to help a gun moll (Emma Booth) with a suitcase of cash at the scene of a car accident which claimed the life of her mobster beau.

When it's among men, however, as in an early scene where Vail visits a mobster and a city alderman to secure testimony, or another where he rejects the sanctimony of former boss DA Shaughnessy (John Mahoney) over Chinese food, Primal Fear lives up to its title's promise to be about the wet places in the male's lizard brain.

He becomes this monster of monsters, a mobster who reminds us that there's nothing glamorous about «Thug Life,» nothing romantic about stone cold criminals who turn their limited intellects toward the illegal, whose sole «code» is self - preservation.

The crew hits every demographic for today's all - embracive audience: the workaholic team leader (Josh Brolin), the wisecracking heartthrob (Ryan Gosling), the experienced old - timer (Robert Patrick), the soft - spoken Latino (Michael Pena), the switchblade - wielding black cop (Anthony Mackie) and the morally torn egghead (Giovanni Ribisi) who absurdly asks how they're any better than the mobsters they're fighting (I'm not sure how bugging Cohen's living room remotely compares to Cohen having rivals physically torn in half by two cars, but maybe that's just me).

Pegged to Friday's release of «Gangster Squad,» Tere Tereba, author of «Mickey Cohen - the Life and Crimes Of L.A.'s Notorious Mobster,» will read and sign books at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 16 at Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Hollywood, 6644 Hollywood Blvd., 323-463-3273.

Can Sandy clear his name and get his life back on this cross country trek all while dealing with the mystery woman, mobster bounty hunters and a hillbilly skip tracer.

A wannabe actress, she is the inevitable love interest who is torn — gee, I wonder whose side she's gonna choose — between the mobster and the police officer who promises to take her out of that life.

A mobster - turned - priest is drawn back to his old life.

«Live by Night» is the story of the rise of a relatively low - level mobster named Joe Coughlin (Affleck) during Prohibition.

In real life, the mobsters had reasons to resent White Anglo - Saxon Protestants and the Klansmen hated Catholics and immigrants almost as much as blacks, but the flashpoint was illegal trafficking in booze.

Mitchum and Jane Russell live it up at a pleasure spot hideaway with mobster Raymond Burr.

Directed by Ariel Vromen, The Iceman is a biopic about a contract killer (Shannon) caught between his family life and his loyalty to a local mobster.

Sullivan is orphaned and living with his grandmother when Costello comes into his life, and the mobster's patronage gives him a sense of place that's worth more than any amount of easy money.

Dustin Hoffman's most compelling role in a while was his ex - con / racetrack mobster on HBO's short - lived «Luck.»

I live where most of us «civilians» do, in 64 building, which is dockside on the east side of Alcatraz — a base hit from the mobster Al Capone.

In addition to opening his bar only every Friday for much of its existence, he allows patrons to make their own drinks, recites Shakespeare and Beckett, greets the very occasional new patrons of his bar as close friends, sings, paints, kayaks in New York Harbor, and tells captivating stories of life in wartime Red Hook among the mobsters and war heroes who frequented what was once his grandfather's bar before it became his father's, and then his.

Whether beating money out of low - lives for his Irish mobster boss, or beating life out of amateur fighters in the octagon, a woman's heart hops; her body burns with unhinged desire when she sees that tattoo - covered bad - boy body in action.

The Boston NPR station is using an early version of Creatavist, the new storytelling and layout platform from Atavist, in its coverage of the notorious mobster's life and upcoming trial.

11th April 2013 - The Call of Duty Black Ops 2 «Uprising» DLC will hit Xbox LIVE on April 16th before any other platform and today Activision released a new trailer which sees «4 mobsters... Read More

This first installment, «Realm of Shadows» is the focus of this week's new episode of the Power Button podcast in which Blake Grundman and I discuss the events of the game, our favorite moments, trying to live up to the characterizations of our respective favorite Batman incarnations, why shaking hands with a notorious mobster at a party is a bad idea, how playing as Bruce Wayne is remarkably different than playing as the Dark Knight, and so much more.

A person has their life threatened by a mobster.