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lucky number slevin (2006)

lucky number slevin
lucky number slevin
R
Crime
Documentary
Drama
Mystery
Thriller

Release Date
February 24, 2006
Director
Paul McGuigan
Runtime
110
Main Genre
Crime
Writers
Jason Smilovic
Tagline
Luck has nothing to do with it.

Summary

Lucky Number Slevin” is a comic thriller that twists and turns its way through an underworld of crime and revenge where nothing is as it seems. Set in New York City, a case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Josh Hartnett) into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most notorious rival crime bosses: The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman). Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat (Bruce Willis) and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to escape the maze alive.

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