Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
Crime, Drama, Mystery |
Lucky Number Slevin is a crime thriller film directed by Paul McGuigan, written by Jason Smilovic, and starring Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman, and Ben Kingsley.
Set in New York City, the plot focuses on the paths of Slevin Kelevra (Hartnett), Lindsey (Liu), two feuding crime lords known as The Boss (Freeman) and The Rabbi (Kingsley), and a mysterious hitman known as Mr. Goodkat (Willis).
It was the first Weinstein Company film to be distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city’s most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him.
Two bookies are separately ambushed and murdered by their unseen killers; elsewhere, a young man is killed by a sniper. In a bus terminal, a young man is approached by Goodkat, who tells the story of Max and the Kansas City Shuffle: two decades earlier, Max borrowed money from the mob to bet on a fixed horse race, only for the horse to die mid-race. To set an example to make sure nobody else would try to bet on a fixed race, the mob killed Max, his wife and young son Henry. Goodkat describes the “Kansas City Shuffle”, a misleading double bluff, then tricks and kills the young man, taking the body in a truck.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Writer: Jason Smilovic
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Michael Rubenfeld, Peter Outerbridge
Cast:
| Josh Hartnett | … | Slevin Kelevra |
| Bruce Willis | … | Mr. Goodkat |
| Lucy Liu | … | Lindsey |
| Morgan Freeman | … | The Boss |
| Ben Kingsley | … | The Rabbi (as Sir Ben Kingsley) |
| Michael Rubenfeld | … | Yitzchok |
| Peter Outerbridge | … | Dumbrowski |
| Stanley Tucci | … | Brikowski |
| Kevin Chamberlin | … | Marty |
| Dorian Missick | … | Elvis |
| Mykelti Williamson | … | Sloe |
| Scott Gibson | … | Max |
| Daniel Kash | … | Bodyguard #1 |
| Dmitry Chepovetsky | … | Bodyguard #2 |
| Sam Jaeger | … | Nick Fisher |
| Danny Aiello | … | Roth |
| Oliver Davis | … | Henry |
| Corey Stoll | … | Saul |
| Howard Jerome | … | Abe |
| J.D. Jackson | … | Mugger (as JD Jackson) |
| Jennifer Miller | … | Slevin’s Girlfriend |
| Sebastien Roberts | … | The Guy |
| Robert Forster | … | Murphy |
| Shira Leigh | … | Hottie |
| Janet Lane | … | Blondie |
| Nicholas Rice | … | Doc |
| Bernard Kay | … | Morty |
| Sam Stone | … | Old Waiter |
| Darren Marsman | … | Slim Hopkins |
| Gerry Mendicino | … | Benny Begin |
| Diego Klattenhoff | … | Ginger |
| Rick Bramucci | … | Soldier |
| Rami Posner | … | The Mute |
| Steve Lucescu | … | Large Thuggish Man |
| Victoria Barkoff | … | Abe’s Wife |
| Victoria Fodor | … | Helen |
| Kwasi Songui | … | Henchman |
| Barbara Barnes-Hopkins | … | Brown Sugar (as Barbara Barnes Hopkins) |
| Alvin Powell | … | Tree |
| Judy Sinclair | … | Mrs. Johnston |
| David Wajcman | … | Desk Clerk |
| Sacha Sojic | … | Yitzchok’s Lover |
| Bobby Brown | … | Elevator Man |
| Frank Salive | … | Race Announcer (voice) (as Frank Salibe) |
| Pascal Anctil | … | Business Man (uncredited) |
| Sandrine Dugas | … | Mary (uncredited) |
| Matthew G. Taylor | … | Featured (uncredited) |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia