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Set in the most crime-infested area of New York in the mid-1800s a young man meets up with a pickpocket and together they seek to avenge the death of his father...

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ProducerHarvey Weinstein, Martin Scorsese, Alberto Grimaldi

EAN5017239197918

eBay Product ID (ePID)14048555589

Product Key Features

ActorDavid Hemmings, William Kiernan, Martin Scorsese, Jim Broadbent, Liam Neeson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brendan Gleeson, Cara Seymour, John C. Reilly, Cameron Diaz, Liam Carney, Henry Thomas

Film/TV TitleGangs of New York

DirectorMartin Scorsese

Release Year2003

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure

Run Time160 Mins

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Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Number of Discs1

ComposerHoward Shore

Production DesignerDante Ferretti

AwardsBest Actor 2002 - Daniel Day-Lewis

Additional InformationDirector Martin Scorsese revisits New York City's notorious past with this dazzling historical drama. A throwback to the epics of yesteryear, GANGS OF NEW YORK is set in the mid-1800s, when the streets of lower Manhattan were teeming with tension and violence. Leonardo DiCaprio is Amsterdam Vallon, the son of a revered gang leader (Liam Neeson). As a youth, Amsterdam witnessed the death of his father at the hands of William "The Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), the maniacally driven ruler of the city's most powerful gang. Sixteen years later, Amsterdam is finally released from the orphanage that raised him. Determined to avenge his father's death, Amsterdam makes his way back to the volatile Five Points to track down Cutting and exact revenge. As he gradually infiltrates Bill the Butcher's camp and earns the crazed gangster's respect, he must also contend with the tumultuous, but beautiful, Jenny Everdean (Cameron Diaz). Di Caprio and Diaz are impressive in their respective roles, but it is Day-Lewis who steals the show. Resurfacing after a five-year retirement, the Irish actor delivers a performance that is at once cartoonish, electrifying, comical, sincere, and deeply moving. By paying tribute to the early days of New York City in such a grand, spectacular manner, Scorsese also pays tribute to cinema itself.

ReviewsPremiere - ...Unsparing, hallucinatory, spectacular, it's personal moviemaking on an epic scale, a vision that will take your breath away and hold it for the movie's entire running time..., Rolling Stone - ...GANGS OF NEW YORK is something better than perfect: It's thrillingly alive....A triumph of pure craft and passionate heart..., Variety - ...GANGS OF NEW YORK bears all the earmarks of a magnum opus for Martin Scorsese....A richly impressive and densely realized work..., Entertainment Weekly - ...The complicated and brilliant Day-Lewis makes all of old New York come alive; he's the furnace that stokes the story, and he gives off real, exciting heat..., USA Today - ...It has as much greatness in it as any movie this year..., Movieline - ...Day-Lewis does a superb job of making the villain charismatic and complex..., Film Comment - ...GANGS OF NEW YORK may be the last of its kind -- a costume picture made entirely in a studio by a superbly creative director in collaboration with mater craftspeople..., New York Times - ...GANGS OF NEW YORK is an important film as well as an entertaining one. With this project, Mr. Scorsese has made his passionate ethnographic sensibility the vehicle of an especially grand ambition...

ScreenwriterKenneth Lonergan, Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian

AuthorHerbert Asbury, Jay Cocks

Movie/TV TitleGangs Of New York

Director of PhotographyMichael Ballhaus