Meyer (2019)

by Jonathan Lang

Series: H1 Originals

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Meyer Lansky is dead ... or at least that's what he wants his enemies to believe. But the old man has one last job to pull off, and he can't do it alone. Once he recruits an innocent bystander, their journey propels them headlong into an adventure filled with murder and malice, towards an ending neither could possibly have foreseen. For fans of "Breaking Bad". An immigrant's story in the guise of an old mobster's tale.… (more)

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This wants to be a senior citizen action/comedy crime movie like Going in Style, Red, or The Old Man and the Gun. Spinning off the fact that organized crime figure Meyer Lanksy actually lived to be a retired man in his 80s in 1980s Florida, this fiction imagines him going on the lam from his nursing home for one last spree to get something or other from someplace or other before something happens? The plot relies on stupid coincidences and lots of supposedly scary people running after Lansky and his accomplice, attempting to kill them but always just failing short, though lots of other people get killed along the way.

Dumb and boring. (

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villemezbrown | Jan 12, 2020 |

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2019

People/Characters

Meyer Lansky

Morris Gluck (Meyer Lansky)

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Islamorada, Florida, USA

Miami, Florida, USA

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Epigraph

When you look to the heights, hold on to your hat. - Yiddish Proverb

Dedication

Dedicated to my grandfathers, Phillip Mitnick, a real Brooklyn wiseguy, Herschel Lang, a true talmudic wise man, and my gift of a son, Henry Asher Lang, who gives me wisdom each day. - Jonathan Lang

To my old uncle Enio - Andrea Mutti

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Islamorada. Florida. 1982
10 feet below and counting . . .
When I was a little pisher in short pants . . . I thought I saw the hand of God in the East River.

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Lansky II, Meyer

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English

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Meyer Lansky is dead ... or at least that's what he wants his enemies to believe. But the old man has one last job to pull off, and he can't do it alone. Once he recruits an innocent bystander, their journey propels them headlong into an adventure filled with murder and malice, towards an ending neither could possibly have foreseen. For fans of "Breaking Bad". An immigrant's story in the guise of an old mobster's tale.

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