event Joel And Ethan Coen: Raising Cain: Miller's Crossing

Following up their zany comedy Raising Arizona, the Coen Brothers proved their remarkable range with Miller’s Crossing, an impeccable period gangster drama (based on Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key) that’s stylized within an inch of its life, but has great reserves of feeling under the surface. Much like their recent No Country For Old Men, it uses crackerjack genre material to reveal what happens when the social order breaks down and it’s every man for himself. Gabriel Byrne stars as an advisor to a ’30s mob boss (Albert Finney) who’s hooked up with two-timing moll Marcia Gay Harden and her shyster bookie brother, John Turturro. While rival crew leader Jon Polito tries to sway loyalties, Byrne heartlessly plays the angles and avoids getting his hands too bloody.

Following up their zany comedy Raising Arizona, the Coen Brothers proved their remarkable range with Miller’s Crossing, an impeccable period gangster drama (based on Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key) that’s stylized within an inch of its life, but has great reserves of feeling under the surface. Much like their recent No Country For Old Men, it uses crackerjack genre material to reveal what happens when the social order breaks down and it’s every man for himself. Gabriel Byrne stars as an advisor to a ’30s mob boss (Albert Finney) who’s hooked up with two-timing moll Marcia Gay Harden and her shyster bookie brother, John Turturro. While rival crew leader Jon Polito tries to sway loyalties, Byrne heartlessly plays the angles and avoids getting his hands too bloody.