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On the big screen: Live by Night
Starring: Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina, Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana and Chris Cooper.
Director: Ben Affleck.
It’s the roaring 20s, and prohibition hasn’t stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies.
The opportunity for power and money is there for any man with enough ambition and nerve.
Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police superintendent, turned his back on his strict upbringing long ago in exchange for the spoils of being an outlaw.
But even among criminals there are rules and Joe breaks a big one, crossing a powerful mob boss by stealing both the gangster’s money and moll.
The fiery affair ends in tragedy, setting Joe on a path of revenge, ambition, romance and betrayal that propels him out of Boston and up the ladder of Tampa’s steamy rum-running underworld.
