Lansky (1999)

Directed by

John McNaughton

Genre

drama fiction

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

R

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging Meyer Lansky looks back on his life in organized crime. The film tells his story from his early days to his later years.

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What happens

Lansky is a 1999 American crime drama television film directed by John McNaughton and written by David Mamet, based in part on the 1979 biography Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob by Uri Dan, Dennis Eisenberg, and Eli Landau. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as the famous gangster Meyer Lansky, Eric Roberts as Bugsy Siegel, and Ryan Merriman as the young Lansky. Illeana Douglas, Beverly D'Angelo, and Anthony LaPaglia also star. The film aired on HBO on February 27, 1999. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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