Live by Night

A multilayered, well-acted, violent, star-studded (Chris Cooper, Elle Fanning, Anthony Michael Hall, Scott Eastwood, Chris Sullivan, Miguel, Titus Welliver, Clark Gregg, and Matthew Maher), 128-minute film based on Dennis Lehane's novel in which a gangster (Ben Affleck) in 1926 Boston disappoints his veteran police captain father (Brendan Gleeson) when he leads a life of crime and lands in jail, recklessly becomes smitten with the girlfriend (Sienna Miller) of an Irish mobster (Robert Glenister), and then ends up being a bootlegger running rum and speakeasies for an Italian don (Remo Girone) with his longtime, trusted partner (Chris Messina) in Tampa during the Prohibition and falling in love with a beautiful Cuban (Zoe Saldana).
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