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Black Mass is a 2015 American biographical crime drama film about American mobster Whitey Bulger.Directed by Scott Cooper and written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth, it is based on Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill's 2000 book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob.
Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film a positive review and said that Donnie Brasco was "a first class Mafia thriller". [18] Critics especially praised Depp's performance. A Salon.com review hailed Depp's performance as "sensational". [19] New York Magazine called Depp "graceful" and found his acting highly believable. "We ...
The film Black Mass – released September 18, 2015, in the US – stars Johnny Depp as Bulger and was directed by Scott Cooper. [138] The film's screenplay is based on the 2001 non-fiction book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob, by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. [139]
In the two following years, Depp appeared in the comedy Private Resort (1985), the war film Platoon (1986), and Slow Burn (1986). A year later, he started playing his recurring role as Officer Tom Hanson in the police procedural television series 21 Jump Street (1987–1990) which he played until the middle of season 4 , and during this time ...
ISBN 0-340-66637-4) is a 1988 autobiographical crime book written by Joseph D. Pistone (assisted by Richard Woodley) about his story as an FBI agent going undercover and infiltrating the Mafia. In 1997, the book was made into a feature film titled Donnie Brasco, starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino.
Nov. 9, 2024, marks 40 years since the release of A Nightmare on Elm Street. The horror classic, starring Robert Englund and Heather Langenkamp, also marked the film debut of Johnny Depp
Also among Depp’s upcoming projects is the animated movie Johnny Puff: Secret Mission. Heard now lives a quiet life in Madrid, Spain , with her 3-year-old daughter Oonagh Paige .
The Winter Hill Gang was a loose confederation of organized crime figures in the Boston, Massachusetts, US, area.It was generally considered an Irish Mob organization, with most gang members and the leadership consisting predominantly of Irish-Americans, though some notable members, such as Stephen Flemmi and Johnny Martorano, are of Italian-American descent.