

Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong number.
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.
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Contemporary, unpretentious, spare and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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“Does Morgan Freeman steal Lucky Number Slevin from Josh Hartnett?”
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Cast
- Josh HartnettSlevin
- Morgan FreemanThe Boss
- Ben KingsleyThe Rabbi
- Lucy LiuLindsey
- Bruce WillisMr. Goodkat
- Stanley TucciDet. Brikowski
- Mykelti WilliamsonSloe
- Peter OuterbridgeDumbrowski
- Michael RubenfeldYitzchok
- Kevin ChamberlinMarty
Crew
- Paul McGuiganDirector
- Jason SmilovicScreenplay
- Peter SovaDirector of Photography
- J. RalphOriginal Music Composer
- Andrew HulmeEditor
- Anthony RhulenProducer
- Christopher RobertsProducer
- Andreas GroschProducer
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