Leonardo DiCaprio
Amsterdam Vallon
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Budget. $97-100 million [4] [5] Box office. $193.8 million [5] Gangs of New York is a 2002 American historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, based on Herbert Asbury 's 1927 book The Gangs of New York. [6] The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron ...
- $97-100 million
- Howard Shore
- December 20, 2002
Dec 20, 2002 · Gangs of New York: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent. In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.
- Martin Scorsese
- 2 min
Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a young Irish immigrant released from prison. He returns to the Five Points seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis ...
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- Martin Scorsese
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- Leonardo Dicaprio
Synopsis. In 1846, in Lower Manhattan's Five Points, a territorial war between the "Natives" (those born in the United States) and recently arrived Irish Catholic immigrants, is coming to a head in Paradise Square. The Natives are led by "Bill the Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), a Protestant who campaigns for the rights of the natives.
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld is an American non-fiction book by Herbert Asbury, first published in 1928 by Alfred A. Knopf. It was the basis for Martin Scorsese 's 2002 film Gangs of New York . Asbury published an article, "The Old-Time Gangs of New York", in The American Mercury in 1927, which was incorporated ...
Dec 20, 2002 · Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" rips up the postcards of American history and reassembles them into a violent, blood-soaked story of our bare-knuckled past. The New York it portrays in the years between the 1840s and the Civil War is, as a character observes, "the forge of hell," in which groups clear space by killing their rivals. Competing fire brigades and police forces fight in the ...
