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Lansky

starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Roberts, Anthony LaPaglia, Max Perlich, Beverly D'Angelo
directed by: John McNaughton

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0026359147425
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 20541
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 27, 1999



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Product Description:
Tells of a young emigrants rise from poverty to riches through hard-edged business sense and a ruthless ability to murder anyone who gets in his way. Special features: filmographies and scene access. Subtitles in english french and spanish. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Richard Dreyfuss Illeana Douglas Run time: 116 minutes Rating: R Director: John Mcnaughton

Amazon.com:
Meyer Lansky, along with Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano, helped mold organized crime in America into 'the Syndicate,' a business run as efficiently and ruthlessly as any corporation. Richard Dreyfuss plays Lansky (as do Max Perlich and Ryan Merriman). Starting out with Lansky as an aging, ill, cranky man taking refuge in Israel, the film tells his life in a series of flashbacks, starting out as a young Jewish tough trying to hold his own against Irish gangs in New York. Lansky and his associates climb the ladder of crime over the years, turning Las Vegas from a quiet desert town into a swank gambling hot spot, eliminating any rogue elements or competition that could hurt the cause. Senator Estes Kefauver came along to put a dent in the Mob's activities by the l950s, but Lansky and company came through fairly unscathed. With direction by John McNaughton and a pungent David Mamet screenplay, this should be top-drawer stuff, but, oddly, it comes across as only average. The movie's chronological structure, jumping back and forth in time, becomes a little confusing, then irritating. Three actors playing the same man over the years make it a bit difficult to nail down his real essence, while several other characters are barely more than window dressing. Also, the Judaism of Lansky, Siegel, Rosen, and Rothstein is given short shrift in the story. With tighter editing and firmer direction, Lansky could have been very good, but as is, it's just what it is: a made-for-cable biopic. --Jerry Renshaw



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Lansky
Excellent movie. It explains how Las Vegas was founded and how the gangsters had a lot - if not ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Mafia
I found the film interesting because it portrays a mafia boss of another origin than those I have ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Trash
The price reflects the quality of this film. Too many things are wrong with this movie to name. First ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - What was this?
What was this movie? Meyer Lansky did a lot of good for this country. He was a wonderful, Jewish gangster. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Dreyfuss and Perlich are Incredible as Meyer Lansky
The overall production quality of "Lansky" is barely adequate. This HBO TV special comes across as a film made ... Read More

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