Live by Night
2016 · Movie · R · 129 min · ★ 6.3 · 42% critics
During Prohibition, a Boston-raised crew heads to sunny Florida to expand their bootlegging and gambling ambitions. As rival gangs close in and local forces push back, they’re drawn into escalating violence, uneasy alliances, and a dangerous clash with the Ku Klux Klan.
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Details
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2016-12-25
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Critic score
- 42/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (1,407 votes)
- Box office
- $15,885,366
- Budget
- $65,000,000
About
You may enjoy this if you want a Prohibition-era crime saga with bursts of gunplay, romance, and rivalries in a glossy period setting; Not for you if you hate slow pacing, heavy narration, or meandering plots like Run All Night.
Pros: stylish period atmosphere; tense action bursts; strong supporting turns | Cons: slow, overlong pacing; unfocused, jumbled story; thin character depth
Themes
- florida
- based on novel or book
- prohibition era
- love
- revenge
- betrayal
- organized crime
- 1920s
- 1930s
Cast & crew
Ben Affleck
as Joe Coughlin
Elle Fanning
as Loretta Figgis
Brendan Gleeson
as Thomas Coughlin
Chris Messina
as Dion Bartolo
Sienna Miller
as Emma Gould
Zoe Saldaña
as Graciella Suarez
Chris Cooper
as Chief Irving Figgis
Remo Girone
as Maso Pescatore
Anthony Michael Hall
as Gary Smith
Titus Welliver
as Tim Hickey
Directed by Ben Affleck