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The Bookie & the Bruiser

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In 1959 New York, a pensive Jewish fellow named Rivner befriends an oversized Italian-American tough named Boscolo from the Lower East Side. Both men served overseas during WWII and returned changed, no longer fitting inside the lives they'd left behind. Uninterested in taking orders from bosses or playing by the rules of polite society, the two friends partner up as a bookmaker and an enforcer and create an illicit gambling operation that proves to be very profitable, though risky, and their situation gets rather sticky when they find themselves stuck between a powerful Irish gang and the Mafia.

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CAST

Vince Vaughn
Boscolo
Theo James
Rivner
Fred Melamed
Luca Cavicci
Patrick Schwarzenegger
Augie / Bernard
Saul Rubinek
Eli Hirschbaum
Paul Ben-Victor
Generale Francesco Viscuzo
Rebecca Liddiard
Carol
Hannah Galway
Joan
Directed by S. Craig Zahler

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Status
Post Production
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Keep Your Head Productions, C2 Motion Picture Group, Range Media Partners
Country
US

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