Details

Release year: 2013

Storyline

It's 1949 Los Angeles, the city is run by gangsters and a malicious mobster, Mickey Cohen. Determined to end the corruption, John O'Mara assembles a team of cops, ready to take down the ruthless leader and restore peace to the city.

Top credits

Directors

Ruben Fleischer

Writers

Cast

Sean Penn — Mickey Cohen
Ryan Gosling — Sgt. Jerry Wooters
Emma Stone — Grace Faraday
Giovanni Ribisi — Officer Conwell Keeler

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Did you know

• Two of the reasons Ryan Gosling decided to make the movie was because he wanted to act in a scene with Sean Penn and shoot a Tommy gun. He was disappointed when he found out he didn't have any scenes with Penn.

• In the movie, the Gangster Squad is assembled to go after Mickey Cohen. However, in real life Chief W.H. Parker set up the squad to prevent other gangsters from taking over Cohen's rackets after Cohen went to prison on income tax evasion. Whenever the squad learned that out-of-town gangsters were coming to Los Angeles to try to set up new operations, the Gangster Squad would kidnap them, beat them up (some rumors say torture) and then send them back to wherever they came from with the warning that if they ever returned, they would be killed.

• Ryan Gosling's exchange with Emma Stone early in the film about playing "post office" is lifted word-for-word from The Three Stooges short Three Little Pigskins (1934) in a scene with Curly Howard and Phyllis Crane. It also starred a young platinum blonde named Lucille Ball.