The Bookie & The Bruiser
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.
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Theo James as Rivner
- Rebecca Liddiard as Carol
- Paul Ben-Victor as Generale Francesco Viscuzo
- Patrick Schwarzenegger as Augie and Bernard
- Vince Vaughn as Boscolo
- Shawn Doyle
- Saul Rubinek as Eli Hirschbaum
- Emily Mitchell as Fumagalli Daughter
- Fred Melamed as Luca Cavicci
- Rhys Coiro as Salvatore
Crew
- S. Craig Zahler · Director
- S. Craig Zahler · Writer
- Daniel Bekerman · Producer
- Dave Caplan · Producer
- Anthony Katagas · Producer
- Vince Vaughn · Producer
- Benji Bakshi · Cinematographer
- Freddy Waff · Production designer