What Doesn't Kill You (2009)

100 min · Mafia Film, crime film, drama film, heist film

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Directors

Brian Goodman

Cast

Ethan Hawke, Mark Ruffalo, Amanda Peet, Will Lyman, Brian Goodman, Donnie Wahlberg, Angela Featherstone

The story

Hawke and Ruffalo play childhood friends Paulie and Brian, who are forced to survive on the tough streets of South Boston through a life of petty thievery. They join a local gang of criminals, but Brian finds it hard to reconcile his work and friendship with Paulie and his relationship with his wife (Amanda Peet) and sons.

Catalogue themes and tags

2000s, Boston, Criminal Past, Drug Addiction, Entlassung, Fear of the future, Flush, Friendship, Gefängnis, Hold-Up Robbery, Hospital, Human Weakness, Irish Mafia, Irish-American, New Beginning, Restart, Shootout, bester Freund, strange Family

Genres

Mafia Film, crime film, drama film, heist film

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