Leonardo DiCaprio
Amsterdam Vallon
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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.
- $97-100 million
- Howard Shore
- December 20, 2002
Dec 20, 2002 · A crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis and Cameron Diaz. Set in 1862, it follows the quest for revenge of Amsterdam Vallon, an Irish immigrant who returns to the Five Points slum ruled by the ruthless Bill the Butcher.
- 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
- R
- Leonardo Dicaprio
A revenge story set in the Five Points district of New York City in 1863, where gangs of immigrants and natives clash. Amsterdam Vallon, the son of a slain Irish leader, returns to seek justice against Bill the Butcher, the ruthless leader of the Natives.
Dec 20, 2002 · Steven Zaillian. Kenneth Lonergan. 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 ...
Feb 26, 2024 · Gangs of New York, although fictional in its central plot, sheds light on the historic tensions between Catholics, immigrants, and Protestant "natives" in 19th-century New York City. The film ...
