Plot
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Cast
as Tom Reagan
as Verna
as Bernie Bernbaum
as Johnny Caspar
as Eddie Dane
as Leo
as Frankie
as Tic-Tac
as Mink
as Mayor Dale Levander
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Reviews
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 as…
Gabriel Byrne is "Reagan", the enforcer for the pretty ruthless mob kingpin "Leo" (Albert Finney). He is caught in the middle of a battle between his boss and the man who would take his place "Caspar" (John Polito) over the antics of a rogue bookie "Bernie" (the scene-stealing John Turturro) who also happens to be the brother of "Verna" (Marcia Gay Harden) - the girlfriend of Leo, oh - and the mi…