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Joe Coughlin came home from the war in France and fell in with men who rob the outfits of Albert White, the Irish gang boss in Boston. Joe loves White's mistress, Emma Gould, and his father, police captain Thomas Coughlin, objects to the affair and warns him that his crimes will catch up with him. White's Italian rival, Maso Pescatore, learns of the affair and demands that Joe kill White, or he will tell White about Emma. Joe turns him down, and he and Emma plan a new life in California. Paying for that journey means one more robbery, this time a bank, with his partner Dion Bartolo.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Live by Night (2016)
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- Warner Bros. bought the rights to Dennis Lehane's novel Live by Night in April 2012, intending it as a starring vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio, through his Appian Way Productions, before Ben Affleck took the role.
- In its third week of wide release, Live by Night was pulled from 94.1% of its theaters, dropping from 2,822 to 163, the largest third-week wide-release theater drop in history at the time, until The Darkest Minds overtook it in 2018.
- Live by Night grossed $22 million against a net budget of $65 million and lost Warner Bros. around $75 million, according to insiders and rival studio executives.
- Tax rebates in Georgia and the fact that Ben Affleck owned a home on Hampton Island, a 45-minute drive from Brunswick, convinced the filmmakers to shoot in Georgia rather than Florida, according to Tampa's film commissioner.
