The Bookie & the Bruiser

The Bookie & the Bruiser

· 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.

Directed by S. Craig Zahler · Written by S. Craig Zahler

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Cast

Vince Vaughn Boscolo
Theo James Rivner
Fred Melamed Luca Cavicci
Patrick Schwarzenegger Augie / Bernard
Saul Rubinek Eli Hirschbaum
Paul Ben-Victor Generale Francesco Viscuzo
Rebecca Liddiard Carol
Hannah Galway Joan
Shawn Doyle
Robert Bazzocchi Tommy
Karen Cliche Vivian
Anthony Jhade Titus

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