The Bookie & the Bruiser

Overview

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

Top 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

G

Geoff Meech

Matteo Malvezzi

Alex Armbruster

Benito Malvezzi

Jonathan Mason

Dugan

S

Stephen Tzaras

Hirschbaum Customer/Italian Mobster

Dani Jazzar

Fumagalli

John Tokatlidis

Lorenzo

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