Kill the Irishman

A fascinating, violent, well-acted, factually based, star-studded (Vinnie Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer, Fionnula Flanagan, Bob Gunton, and Linda Cardellini) film, which is based on To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled The Mafia and includes archival news footage, that chronicles the dangerous, tumultuous 17-year-period from 1966 to 1977 in the life of no-nonsense, fearless, vegetarian Irishman Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) as he rose from dock worker to take over as president of the longshoremen's union, marries a comely bartender with whom he has three children, and then survives more than five mob hits from Mafia gangsters (Christopher Walken, Paul Sorvino, Tony Lo Bianco, et al.) from Cleveland to New York as he rises in the Mafia ranks.
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