The Bookie & the Bruiser

The story

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.

Cast

V Vince VaughnBoscolo T Theo JamesRivner F Fred MelamedLuca Cavicci P Patrick SchwarzeneggerAugie / Bernard S Saul RubinekEli Hirschbaum P Paul Ben-VictorGenerale Francesco Viscuzo R Rebecca LiddiardCarol H Hannah GalwayJoan S Shawn Doyle R Robert BazzocchiTommy K Karen ClicheVivian A Anthony JhadeTitus

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G Geoff MeechMatteo Malvezzi A Alex ArmbrusterBenito Malvezzi J Jonathan MasonDugan S Stephen TzarasHirschbaum Customer/Italian Mobster D Dani JazzarFumagalli J John TokatlidisLorenzo E Emily MitchellFumagalli Daughter