Gangs Of New York DVD9 PAL

GANGS OF NEW YORK


THE DVD:

Format: 16:9
Audio: English [5.1] / Spanish [DTS][5.1]
Subs: Spanish

Includes: The Film, Director's Comment



THE FILM:

Gangs of New York is a 2002 film set in the middle 19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan. The film is loosely inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 book The Gangs of New York. It was distributed by Miramax Films.

Gangs of New York is about the conflict between the "native" criminal underworld associated with the Know-Nothings and the immigrant gangs aligned with Tammany Hall. Amsterdam Vallon (DiCaprio) is a young Irish-American who gains the trust of William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting (Day-Lewis), leader of the Nativist gangs. The character of Cutting is based on Bill 'The Butcher' Poole, a real-life leader of the Bowery Boys gang who is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

The film opens in 1846, but most of the action takes place in the early 1860s, when the two principal controversies in New York were the great wave of Irish immigration to the city and the federal government's prosecution of the American Civil War. The story follows the careers of Amsterdam and Cutting as they rise from crime bosses to political kingmakers during the reign of Boss Tweed (Broadbent), and culminates with a confrontation between them that coincides with the New York Draft Riots of 1863.

CAST:

Leonardo DiCaprio ... Amsterdam Vallon
Daniel Day-Lewis... Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting
Cameron Diaz... Jenny Everdeane
Jim Broadbent... Boss Tweed
John C. Reilly...Happy Jack
Henry Thomas...Johnny Sirocco
Liam Neeson... Priest' Vallon
Brendan Gleeson...Walter 'Monk' McGinn

Directed by Martin Scorsese
Produced by Alberto Grimaldi / Harvey Weinstein
Written by Jay Cocks / Steven Zaillian / Kenneth Lonerg

Webs:

IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217505/
WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_New_York
Oficial Web: http://video.movies.go.com/gangsofnewyork/