“The Coen's take on gangster movies with this sometimes pretentious but wonderful movie about a clear thinking gangster named Tom who ends up on one side and then the other of a …”
Leo, a likeable Irish gangster boss, rules an Eastern city along with Tom, his trusted lieutenant and couselor. But just as their authority is challenged by an Italian underboss and his ruthless henchman, Leo and Tom fall for the same woman. Tom, caught in the jaws of a gangland power struggle, walks a deadly tightrope as he tries to control and manipulate its violent outcome.