

“In 1978, the US government waged a war against organized crime. One man was left behind the lines.”
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Director
Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$35,000,000
Revenue
$124,909,762

The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it's a ticket to disaster for both of them.


Paulie
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.