Lucky Number Slevin (2006) on Netflix
Thugs mistake Slevin Kelevra for his friend Nick and drag him to a crime boss, who demands he pay a gambling debt or kill a rival's son. The rival's men seize him.
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- Rotten Tomatoes52%
Trailer
Plot summary
Two bookies are ambushed and killed. At a bus terminal, a man named Goodkat tells a young stranger about a horse race fixed twenty years earlier and the family that paid for it. Slevin Kelevra is staying in the apartment of his friend Nick Fisher when Lindsey, a neighbor who works as a coroner, comes by asking about Nick. Henchmen who take Slevin for Nick deliver him to The Boss, who wants Nick's gambling debt settled and tells Slevin to kill The Rabbi's son. The Rabbi's own men seize him and press for the same money. Detective Brikowski, aware that Goodkat has returned to the city after twenty years, keeps Slevin under watch.
Cast
- Michael Rubenfeldas Yitzchok
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In November 2023, amid the recognition of LGBT as an "extremist organization" in Russia, the film was censored on Kinopoisk with the word "fairy" bleeped out in the trailer, as pointed out by journalist Damir Kamaletdinov, who shared the video on his own Twitter page.
- The Weinstein Company paid less than $10 million to buy the rights to distribute Lucky Number Slevin in the United States and select overseas markets, and its April 2006 US release was the first Weinstein film handled by MGM under a three-year distribution deal that was later canceled three months early in 2008.
- The film made $26,877,256 from home video sales alone, pushing its worldwide total to $83,186,137, and it was one of the few movies ever released on the short-lived HD-VMD disc format.
- Made on a $27 million budget, Lucky Number Slevin grossed $56,308,881 worldwide, turning a profit for US rights holder The Weinstein Company.
