Gangster Movies: (ca. 1996) New York City, the 1930s. A powerful crime family is caught in a lethal crossfire between union organizers and brutal corporate bosses. Against this turbulent backdrop, the family’s three street-hardened brothers and the women they love are about to be plunged into a deadly confrontation with their enemies, with each other, and with their own dark heritage of violence, madness and murder.

It doesn’t have the romantic sweep of a Godfather movie, nor the rawness of Scarface, but it does have great acting: the cold, sinister aloofness of the leader-brother (Christopher Walken); the raging insanity of the bartender-brother(Chris Penn); and, the cockiness of the younger communist-influenced brother (Vincent Gallo). Bennissio del Toro as the suave and slick rival mobster rounds out a terrific cast.

Revealing mistakes: Johnny is dead in his coffin, but he flinches when someone brushes his eyebrows.

Continuity: When Johnny is dead in his coffin, his neat hair becomes messy between shots.

Johnny Tempi: I would say life is pretty pointless, wouldn’t you, without the movies?

Jean: Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?
Ray Tempio: I’m not ashamed of nothing. I didn’t make the world.

Jean: They’re criminals, and there’s absolutely nothing romantic about it.

Ray: I have no choice. You’re never going to forget this.

Gaspare: Birds of a feather get fucked together, Johnny.