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Gangster Squad
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Gangster Squad is a 2013 American and Australian thriller, crime, drama, and action film directed by Ruben Fleischer. The screenplay was written by Will Beall, with Steve Jablonsky composing the music. The cast includes Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, and Nick Nolte. Produced by Dan Lin and Village Roadshow Pictures, the film was distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Netflix. It has an R rating and a runtime of 113 minutes.
The narrative is set in Los Angeles, which also served as the filming location. The story focuses on organized crime and the Los Angeles Police Department. The film was released in English and had a budget of 60,000,000, generating 105,200,000 in revenue. It received 5 nominations. Critical reception included an IMDb rating of 6.7 based on 229,192 votes, a Metascore of 40, and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 30%.
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6.4Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.
Cast
- Josh Brolin as John O'Mara
- Ryan Gosling as Sgt. Jerry Wooters
- Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen
- Nick Nolte as Bill Parker
- Emma Stone as Grace Faraday
- Anthony Mackie as Coleman Harris
Themes
- gangster
- los angeles, california
- 1940s
- griffith observatory
- dramatic
- tense
- witty
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Ratings
IMDb
6.7/10
228,278 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
30%
Metacritic
40/100
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 5 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Ruben Fleischer
- Written by
- Will Beall
- Based on
- Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles , by Paul Lieberman
- Produced by
- Dan Lin Kevin McCormick Michael Tadross
- Starring
- Josh Brolin Ryan Gosling Nick Nolte Emma Stone Anthony Mackie Giovanni Ribisi Michael Peña Sean Penn
- Cinematography
- Dion Beebe
- Edited by
- Alan Baumgarten James Herbert
- Music by
- Steve Jablonsky
- Production companies
- Village Roadshow Pictures Lin Pictures Kevin McCormick Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release dates
- January 7, 2013 ( 2013-01-07 ) ( Grauman's Chinese Theatre ) January 11, 2013 ( 2013-01-11 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 113 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $60–75 million
- Box office
- $105.2 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Gangster Squad is a 2013 American crime action thriller film directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Will Beall, loosely based on a non-fiction book by Paul Lieberman. The film stars Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Michael Peña, and Sean Penn. Set in 1949, the film follows a group of real-life LAPD officers and detectives, the Gangster Squad, who are assigned to bring down crime kingpin Mickey Cohen.
After the script spent several years on the Black List, production began in September 2011 around Los Angeles, lasting through December. Despite the film originally scheduled to be released in theaters on September 7, 2012, the movie theater shooting in Aurora, which occurred seven weeks prior, led Warner Bros. Pictures to delay the film's theatrical release until January 11, 2013, allowing the production team to perform re-shoots to overwrite the old sequence from which the gangsters open fire at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Gangster Squad received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $105 million worldwide.
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