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Mobsters is a 1991 crime drama detailing the creation of the National Crime Syndicate. Set in New York City during the Prohibition era, it's a (somewhat fictionalized) account of rise of the Five Points Gang: Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. The film focuses primarily on Luciano and Lansky as they engineer their rise from petty criminals and later Bootleggers, eventually becoming the Leaders of the New York Mafia.
Christian Slater (Luciano), Patrick Dempsey (Lanskey), Richard Grieco (Seigel), and Costas Mandylor (Costello) star as the epynonymous protagonists; the supporting cast includes F. Murray Abraham as Bootlegger Arnold Rothstein, Anthony Quinn as Joe Masseria, Michael Gambon as Salvatore Maranzano (Salvatore "Faranzano" according to the Internet Movie Database), Chris Penn, and Lara Flynn Boyle as a Flapper/Moll created largely to provide the requisite love interest demanded in typical Hollywood films.
Tagline: "They didn't take orders... they took over".
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"Mobsters"