The Bookie & the Bruiser
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Timeline
- 2026-08-26 — Casting: Paul Ben-Victor joined the cast as mob boss Generale Francesco Viscuzo.
Cast & crew
Hannah Galway · Robert Bazzocchi · Saul Rubinek · Fred Melamed · Rebecca Liddiard · S. Craig Zahler · Theo James · Paul Ben-Victor · Karen Cliche · Patrick Schwarzenegger · Shawn Doyle · Vince Vaughn
Studios & networks
C2 Motion Picture Group · Keep Your Head Productions · Range Media Partners