Wise Guys

IMDb link: 0092226
IMDb rating: 5.6 (6,871 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Director: Brian De Palma, Danny DeVito
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Joe Piscopo, Ray Sharkey and others

Release date: 18 Apr 1986
Release year: 1986
Runtime: 100 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: dark comedy, buddy comedy, buddy film, gangster movie, shopping montage, fast motion scene, gambling, debt, godfather, hitman

Plot:

Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are goons for the Newark mob boss Castelo. They are sent to the race track to place a bet on a horse but screw it up by betting on the wrong horse. Now they owe $250,000 but they separately get an offer to work it off; by killing the other one. Together they go off to Atlantic City where Harry's mobster uncle Mike may be able to bail them out.

Back to card