Live by Night (2016)
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An ambitious bootlegger becomes a notorious gangster while navigating the violent underworld of the Prohibition era.
- First release year
- 2016
- Runtime (minutes)
- 129
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Ben Affleck
- Writers
- Ben Affleck · screenplay
- Cast and characters
- Ben Affleck · Joe Coughlin; Elle Fanning; Brendan Gleeson; Chris Messina; Sienna Miller; Zoe Saldaña; Chris Cooper
- Genres
- action; drama; crime
- Tone and mood
- gritty; violent; serious
- Premise and plot tags
- crime drama; gangster; historical; mob
- Source material / true-story basis
- 2012 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane
- Reported review scores
- CinemaScore · score: B · scale: A+ to F
- Production trivia
- The film's third-week wide-release theater drop was the largest in history at the time.
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