Gangster Squad

Genre: Crime

Worldwide gross$105M

It's 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him. Everyone except Sergeant John O'Mara, a former World War II soldier, whose goal is to settle with his family in a peaceful Los Angeles. Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O'Mara to lead the unit. O'Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested. After Wooters witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen's people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen's organization. Cohen wonders if a rival is going after him, eventually he realizes it's the cops.

🏆 5 nominations total

Genres

Action, Crime, Drama

Director

Ruben Fleischer

Cast

Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone

Released

11 January 2013

Runtime

1h 53m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.7 / 10

Votes

228,278

Metascore

40

Rotten Tomatoes

30%

Box office

$46,000,903

Budget

$60,000,000

Edition

Base