Mobsters 737234 221663168 2008-06-25T14:50:30Z Peppos 4949602 +it {{Infobox Film | name = Mobsters | image = mobsters.jpg | caption = Poster for ''Mobsters''.| director = [[Michael Karbelnikoff]] | writer = [[Michael Mahern]]<br>[[Nicholas Kazan]] | producer = [[Jim Ballantine (producer)|Jim Ballantine]]<br>[[Carolyn Bates]] | starring = [[Christian Slater]]<br>[[Patrick Dempsey]]<br>[[Richard Grieco]]<br>[[Costas Mandylor]]<br>[[Michael Gambon]]<br>[[Anthony Quinn]]<br>[[F. Murray Abraham]]<br>[[Chris Penn]]<br>[[Lara Flynn Boyle]] | music = [[Michael Small]] | distributor = [[Universal Pictures]] | released = [[July 26]], [[1991]] | runtime = 104 min. | language = [[English language|English]] | imdb_id = 0102460 | |}} {{Infobox movie certificates |United_States = R }} '''''Mobsters''''' is a [[1991 in film|1991]] crime drama detailing the creation of the [[National Crime Syndicate]]/[[The Commission]]. Set in [[New York, New York|New York City]] during the [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition]] era, it's a somewhat fictionalized account of rise of [[Lucky Luciano|Charles "Lucky" Luciano]], [[Meyer Lansky]], [[Frank Costello]], and [[Bugsy Siegel | Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel]]. The film focuses primarily on Luciano and Lansky as they rise from petty criminals and [[Rum-running|bootleggers]] to push aside the old guard of the [[Mafia#American_Cosa_Nostra| Mafia]] and eventually establish [[The Commission (mafia) | The Commission]], which set up the New York Mafia into five separate families. [[Christian Slater]] (Luciano), [[Patrick Dempsey]] (Lansky), [[Richard Grieco]] (Siegel), and [[Costas Mandylor]] (Costello) star as the eponymous protagonists; the supporting cast includes [[F. Murray Abraham]] as [[Arnold Rothstein]], [[Anthony Quinn]] as [[Joe Masseria]], [[Michael Gambon]] as [[Salvatore Maranzano]] (in the movie he is curiously called Salvatore "Faranzano"), [[Chris Penn]], and [[Lara Flynn Boyle]] as a Flapper/[[Moll]] created largely to provide the requisite love interest demanded in typical [[Hollywood]] films. '''Taglines''': *''They didn't take orders...They took over.'' *''They rose from nothing to rule everything.'' *''They had what it took to build an empire...They just built it on the wrong side of the law.'' [[Category:1991 films]] [[Category:Biographical films]] [[Category:Independent films]] [[Category:Mafia films]] [[de:Die wahren Bosse – Ein teuflisches Imperium]] [[it:L'impero del crimine]] [[ja:モブスターズ/青春の群像]] [[pt:Mobsters]] [[ru:Гангстеры (фильм, 1991)]]