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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.
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new york city
italian american
gambling
war veteran
irish mob
survival
mafia
twins
veteran
1950s
jewish
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Questions about The Bookie & the Bruiser
Who directed The Bookie & the Bruiser?
The Bookie & the Bruiser was directed by S. Craig Zahler.
What genre is The Bookie & the Bruiser?
The Bookie & the Bruiser is a Crime, Thriller film.
Who stars in The Bookie & the Bruiser?
The cast of The Bookie & the Bruiser includes Vince Vaughn, Theo James, Fred Melamed, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Saul Rubinek.
