Black Mass (2015)
Black Mass is a crime drama biography based on the true story of one of the most notorious criminals in U.S. History, Whitey Bulger. When Bulger's turf is encroached on by a rival mafia family, the Angiulo brothers, the death of one of his own mafia family members leads him to join his long-time friend and become an informant for the FBI to exact his revenge - and push the Angiulo's out of his turf.
Black Mass
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- Director
- Scott Cooper
- Release Date
- September 4, 2015
- Studio(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Cast
- Sienna Miller , Dakota Johnson , Jesse Plemons , Kevin Bacon , Johhny Depp , Joel Edgerton , Benedict Cumberbatch
- Writers
- Mark Mallouk , Jez Butterworth , Dick Lehr , Gerard O'Neill
- Runtime
- 123minutes
- Budget
- $53 million
Summary
Based on the true story of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger (Depp), one of the most notorious and violent criminals in American organized crime, who becomes an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his home turf.
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