Mafia Inc Review: Mob Mayhem Among the Maple Leaves
A strong if fictionalized screen version of a bestselling Canadian organized-crime exposé.
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Director: Podz
With: Sergio Castellitto, Marc-André Grondin, Gilbert Sicotte, Mylène Mackay, Donny Falsetti, Tony Nardi, Cristina Rosato, Michael Ricci, Vittorio Rossi, Domenic di Rosa, Toni Ellwand, John Griffin, Henri Picard, Antonio Ianmmatteo. (French, English, Italian dialogue)
Though there haven’t been a lot of movies about it, the tentacles of Italy-based organized crime duly reach above Scorsese territory to the even-more-frequently-Frozen North. If not for the French dialogue, however, you wouldn’t necessarily know “Mafia Inc” were taking place in Quebec, or even Canada, so familiar and insular is the brutal syndicate business depicted here. This solid mob drama is based on journalists Andre Cedilot and Andre Noel’s best-selling nonfiction tome of the same name, whi