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Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, Henry Thomas
Screenplay by: Martin Scorsese, Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian
Studio: Miramax Films
Release Date: December 20th, 2002
Box Office: $77,679,638 (US total)
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Based on a non-fiction book first printed in 1928, this sweeping tale follows the rise of Irish and Italian gangsters in New York, beginning in the Tammany Hall era and moving towards the 20th century. Leonardo DiCaprio plays the son of a murdered gangleader who swears vengeance upon the man who killed his father.
New York City, 1863. Before there was the city we know today, a city of wealth, power and infinite dreams, New York was a very different place, a fledgling young city where the desire for a better life raged in crime-ridden streets. Here, as the Nation’s own survival was being tested by the ongoing Civil War, a vast and dangerous underworld was born in the streets.
These were the gangs of New York, as portrayed in Herbert Asbury’s classic book, whose racketeering, bootlegging, swindling, gambling and murdering would become legendary – and whose culture of corruption threatened the very survival of America’s working people.
In the young, unfinished City, it was a time of ruthlessness, intolerance and fear. But it was also a time of extraordinary bravery, as those pushed to the edge fought for the freedom of future generations.
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