Frankie Machine

Cast: Robert De Niro

Director: Michael Mann

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Release date: 2008

Synopsis:

An adaptation of Don Winslow novel "The Winter of Frankie Machine." De Niro will play Frank Machianno, a mob hitman who has retired to run a bait shop. He agrees to help the son of a mob boss resolve a dispute with another Mafioso but is forced to turn into Frankie Machine again when he realizes he's been set up to be killed.

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