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/