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The Bookie & the Bruiser
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The Bookie & the Bruiser

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Crime · Thriller · Drama

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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Directors
S. Craig Zahler
Production companies
Keep Your Head Productions, C2 Motion Picture Group, Range Media Partners
Countries
United States of America, Canada
Status
Post Production

Top Cast

Vince VaughnVince VaughnBoscolo
Theo JamesTheo JamesRivner
Fred MelamedFred MelamedLuca Cavicci
Patrick SchwarzeneggerPatrick SchwarzeneggerAugie / Bernard
Saul RubinekSaul RubinekEli Hirschbaum
Paul Ben-VictorPaul Ben-VictorGenerale Francesco Viscuzo
Rebecca LiddiardRebecca LiddiardCarol
Hannah GalwayHannah GalwayJoan
Shawn DoyleShawn Doyle
Robert BazzocchiRobert BazzocchiTommy
Karen ClicheKaren ClicheVivian
Anthony JhadeAnthony JhadeTitus
Geoff MeechMatteo Malvezzi
Alex ArmbrusterAlex ArmbrusterBenito Malvezzi
Jonathan MasonJonathan MasonDugan
Stephen TzarasHirschbaum Customer/Italian Mobster
Dani JazzarDani JazzarFumagalli
John TokatlidisJohn TokatlidisLorenzo
Emily MitchellEmily MitchellFumagalli Daughter
Rhys CoiroRhys CoiroSalvatore

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