Story of movie Mobsters : Mobsters is a 1991 American crime film directed by Michael Karbelnikoff. It details the creation of The Commission. Set in New York City, taking place from 1917 to 1931, it is a semi-fictitious account of the rise of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. The film stars Christian Slater as Luciano, Patrick Dempsey as Lansky, Costas Mandylor as Costello and Richard Grieco as Siegel, with Michael Gambon, Anthony Quinn, Lara Flynn Boyle, and F. Murray Abraham in supporting roles.
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| Directed by | Michael Karbelnikoff |
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| Music by | Michael Small |
| Cinematography | Lajos Koltai |
| Edited by | Joe Augustine |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $23 million |
| Box office | $20.2 million |
Screenplay
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This highly dramatized film focuses primarily on Luciano and Lansky. They start as young men victimized by the current mafia. They rise from petty criminals and bootleggers to push aside the old guard of the Mafia and eventually establish The Commission, which set up the New York Mafia into five separate families. Bugsy Siegel (Richard Grieco) and Frank Costello (Costas Mandylor) control the physical elements of the operation, while Lucky Luciano (Christian Slater) and Meyer Lansky (Patrick Dempsey) bring up the business end.
- Christian Slater as Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
- Rodney Eastman as Joey
- Costas Mandylor as Frank Costello
- Richard Grieco as Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
- Patrick Dempsey as Meyer Lansky
- Andy Romano as Antonio Luciano
- Robert Z'Dar as Rocco
- Michael Gambon as Don Faranzano
- Anthony Quinn as Don Masseria
- Chris Penn as Tommy Reina
- F. Murray Abraham as Arnold Rothstein
- Nicholas Sadler as Mad Dog Coll
- Lara Flynn Boyle as Mara Motes
- Joe Viterelli as Joe Profaci
- Titus Welliver as Al Capone
The film was almost-universally panned by critics earning a 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 32 reviews. Variety wrote that "'Mobsters' resembles a cart-before-the-horse case of putting marketing ahead of filmmaking, as the seemingly can't-miss premise of teen-heartthrob gangsters gets lost in self-important direction, a shoddy script and muddled storytelling". According to Roger Ebert, the movie's violence and bloodshed are so far over the top that "they undermine the rest of the film, and approach parody". He gave the movie two and a half out of four stars.
Both Anthony Quinn and Christian Slater were nominated for Razzie Awards as Worst Supporting Actor for their performances, but lost to Dan Aykroyd for Nothing But Trouble.
Slater said he was hoping that the film would be like Bugsy but this didn't happen. "Our movie ended up in bits and pieces all over the world," he said. "They had different versions flying to Japan, Europe and every other place. There were extended versions, shortened versions; all kinds of weird versions. In my opinion, audiences never got to see a full film. Somewhere in all that mess, there was a legitimate story. It was there in the script."
Box office
The movie debuted at No. 2 behind Terminator 2: Judgment Day and failed to make a profit.
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