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Lucky Number Slevin

Promotional theater poster
Directed by Paul McGuigan
Written by Jason Smilovic
Starring Josh Hartnett
Lucy Liu
Morgan Freeman
Ben Kingsley
Stanley Tucci
and Bruce Willis
Music by J. Ralph
Cinematography Peter Sova
Editing by Andrew Hulme
Distributed by North America:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Weinstein Company
International:
New Line Cinema
Release date(s) United Kingdom:February 24, 2006
United States:April 7, 2006
Running time 110 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Gross revenue $56,308,881 (worldwide)[1]

Lucky Number Slevin, renamed for DVD as Lucky # Slevin (also known as The Wrong Man), is a 2006 crime thriller film written by Jason Smilovic, directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Stanley Tucci, Lucy Liu, Josh Hartnett and Bruce Willis. Set in New York City, the plot focuses on the paths of Slevin Kelevra (Hartnett), Lindsey (Liu), two feuding crime lords known as The Boss (Freeman) and The Rabbi (Kingsley), and a mysterious hitman known as Mr. Goodkat (Willis). The film holds a 52% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Plot

Over the film's opening credits, two men are ambushed in separate locations and murdered, their ledgers stolen from their bodies by the unseen killers. Later, in a covered waiting area of a bus terminal, a disturbed young man is approached by Goodkat (Bruce Willis), who tells the story of Max, a family man who bet borrowed money on a fixed horse race while his son waited in the car. Unknown to Max, the mobsters financing the fix discovered others betting on it and, to set an example, murdered Max, his wife and his son. As Goodkat concludes the story, he promptly snaps the man's neck in the bus terminal and puts him in the back of a truck.

In New York City, Slevin Kelevra (Josh Hartnett) answers the door to his friend's apartment and meets neighbor Lindsey (Lucy Liu), who observes that Slevin is not Nick Fisher, the apartment's renter. Slevin relates that he lost his job, found out his apartment was condemned, and caught his girlfriend cheating on him so he decided to visit Nick in New York. Upon arriving in New York he was promptly mugged of his wallet and identification. Slevin confesses he has not seen Nick, and that the apartment was unlocked when he arrived.

Moments later after Lindsey leaves for work, there is another knock at the door and Slevin is kidnapped by two henchmen, who take him to The Boss (Morgan Freeman), a powerful crime lord who has mistaken Slevin for Nick and orders him to repay Nick's hefty $96,000 debt to the gang. As an alternative to payment, the Boss offers Slevin the option of murdering Yitzchok The Fairy, the homosexual son of rival Jewish crime lord Schlomo The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley). As Slevin leaves the building, we see that the police are watching and alert Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) to the presence of "a new face in town".

Slevin returns to Nick's apartment and is swiftly kidnapped by more henchmen, this time two orthodox Jews from The Rabbi's gang. The Rabbi also mistakes Slevin for Nick and also demands he pays Nick's sizeable $33,000 debt to him within 48 hours. As Slevin leaves, Goodkat appears and confirms that the Rabbi will pay him to kill the Boss.

Slevin returns to the Boss and agrees to kill the Fairy. The Boss gives him three days, Slevin asks for a week and the Boss challenges him to a chess match for the extra time. The Boss tells Slevin that the Fairy wears a Star of David pendant which conceals a hidden alarm; when activated the Fairy's bodyguards respond in under 4 seconds. To get around this, the Boss recommends that Slevin approach the Fairy romantically to get inside his apartment.

Slevin and Lindsey go out to dinner, allowing them to consider their mutual attraction and to allow Slevin to survey the Fairy, who dines several tables away. Excusing himself, Slevin approaches the Fairy in the restrooms and exchanges phone numbers for a future date. Returning home, Slevin spends the night in Lindsey's apartment. In the morning, Lindsey goes to work and Slevin is picked up by the Boss' henchmen. As they leave we see that the Rabbi's henchmen have been shot. That night, Slevin visits Yitzchok the Fairy at his apartment and shoots him. Goodkat appears and helps Slevin get rid of the evidence by blowing up the apartment.

Goodkat visits the Boss, kills his henchmen and bodyguards, and takes the Boss hostage, while Slevin kidnaps the Rabbi. Hours later, both the Boss and the Rabbi awake, restrained to chairs in the Boss' penthouse and quarreling with each other over the deaths of their sons. It is revealed that the two mobs, having formerly been united, split in 1984 after the Rabbi, jealous of the Boss's growing power, ordered his death. The assassination attempt killed the Boss's wife and left him with six bullet wounds, but the Boss and his young son survived. The Boss tells the Rabbi his son Yitchok is dead in retaliation for the Rabbi killing his son. The Rabbi claims he had no hand in the Boss's son's death.

Their squabbles are interrupted by Slevin, who explains how Goodkat killed Slim and Slevin killed Benny in order to find a name in each book who owed both mob bosses money: Nick Fisher. The man Goodkat killed in the terminal is revealed as the true Nick Fisher and Slevin as the one who murdered the Boss's son. Goodkat manipulated the resulting gang warfare and job offers from both sides in order to allow Slevin, as 'Nick Fisher', to gain access to both crime lords' heavily fortified apartments.

The story of 'Max' from the beginning is revealed as that of Slevin's father. Meanwhile Goodkat appears at the morgue where Lindsey works and shoots her to protect his identity. At the same time, Brikowski gets a phone call and learns that "Lucky Number Slevin" was the name of horse Max bet on earlier in the movie. Max's bookie included Max's bet in a fixed race meant only for the Boss and the Rabbi. Once they found out someone else was included in the deal, they killed Max, his wife, his son and his bookie. Goodkat had been hired to kill Max's son, revealed to be Slevin, because no one else would take the job. However, upon meeting the young Slevin, Goodkat decided not to kill him.

Back in the penthouse, as payback for his father's death, Slevin slides plastic bags over both the Boss's and Rabbi's heads and asphyxiates them in the same manner his father was killed. Outside, Detective Brikowski, revealed in a flashback as the gunman that shot Max's wife, is shot in the head by Slevin. With his family's deaths avenged, Slevin slips away.

Some time on, Slevin is at an airport terminal and looks up to see Lindsey. They embrace and it is revealed that Slevin knew Goodkat would try to kill her and alerted her before she left for work. She wore a bulletproof vest with blood packs to fake her death. Looking around, Slevin sees Goodkat watching them and discusses the situation with him. Goodkat leaves.

The film closes with a short flashback showing Goodkat and the young Slevin Goodkat shortly after Max's death. Goodkat takes Slevin into his car and tells him that it will be a long time before they can return to New York. Turning the radio on, Kansas City Shuffle plays as they drive away.

Cast

Awards and nominations

Directors Guild of Canada
  • Nominated: Outstanding Sound Editing - Feature Film
Milan International Film Festival
  • Won: Best Film (Paul McGuigan)
  • Won: Best Actor (Josh Hartnett)
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
  • Nominated: Best Sound Editing for Music in a Feature Film
  • Nominated: Best Sound Editing for Sound Effects and Foley in a Foreign Film

See also

References

  1. ^ "Lucky Number Slevin (2006)". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=luckynumberslevin.htm. Retrieved December 9, 2009.  

External links

Films directed by Paul McGuigan
1990s
2000s
Gangster No. 1 (2000) · The Reckoning (2003) · Wicker Park (2004) · Lucky Number Slevin (2006) · Push (2009)

Quotes

Up to date as of January 14, 2010

From Wikiquote

Lucky Number Slevin is a 2006 action/mystery that revolves around Slevin Kelevra, Lindsey, two crime lords, referred to as "The Boss" and "The Rabbi", and a mysterious assassin.

Wrong Time. Wrong Place. Wrong Number.

Contents

The Boss

  • Look at me. Look at my smile. Your son is dead.
  • Are you familiar with the shmoo, Mr. Fisher?
  • I bet it was that mouth that got you that nose.
  • Y-you? Nahh... You're dead. You're DEAD!
  • [After he and Slevin approach a large freezer and look inside] Hey Slim, you know this cat? Slim? I'm sorry, it's no use. [Slim turns out to be a frozen corpse] Ever since somebody shot him ol' Slim's gone deaf.

The Rabbi

  • If there's one thing I know, is when someone is lying. A man in my position, that's all he has to go on. To know a lie when he hears it: the difference between life and death... your own... someone else's. That being said, he wasn't lying.
  • The unlucky are nothing more than a frame of reference for the lucky, Mister Fisher. You are unlucky, so I may know that I am not. Unfortunately the lucky never realize they are lucky until it's too late. Take yourself for instance; yesterday you were better off than you are today but it took today for you to realize it. But today has arrived, and it's too late... You see? People are never happy with what they have. They want what they had. Or what others have...I'm a bad man who doesn't waste time wondering what could've been when I am what could've been and what could not have been. I live on both sides of the fence, and the grass is always green.
  • Since we're not friends and you hate baseball, then why the fuck are you here?

Slevin Kelevra

  • [Repeated Line] I'm Slevin.
  • I'm going to say the same thing a man with two penises says when his tailor asks him if he dresses right or left. Yes.
  • [To the Rabbi and the Boss] The two of you killed everyone I ever loved. (Pause) Fuck you both.
  • Bad dog.
  • You have a deceptively tall knock. Congratulations.
  • Somebody's trying to kill you. Me.
  • I'm just a guy whose dinner's getting cold.
  • I told you before...that's not my name.
  • I did this to you. Me.
  • And that's all there is to it?
  • You can only kill me once.

Mr. Goodkat

  • Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in Monte Carlo and came in third; that's a story. This...is something else.
  • (Last lines of the movie) My name's Goodkat. You can call me Mr. Goodkat.
  • I'm a world-class assassin, fuckhead. How do you think I found out?
  • Sorry about that, son. But sometimes there's more to life than just livin'. Besides, you can't have a Kansas City Shuffle without a body.
  • Don't worry. I'm gonna kill somebody.
  • Because it seems to me that your son is worth more to you alive than he is to the Boss dead.
  • (After being asked about how his flight was and receiving a pat on the back) It was fine. And I kinda have this thing about people touching me.
  • (First line in the movie) There was a time...

Lindsey

  • I was thinking that if you're still alive when I get back from work tonight... maybe we could go out to dinner or something?
  • A mobster with a gay son. How ironic.
  • I'm short for my height.
  • Thanks for the sugar, sugar.

Dialogue

The Boss: They call him "the Fairy"...
Slevin: Why do they call him "the Fairy"?
The Boss: [impatiently] Because he's a fairy.
Slevin: What, he's got wings, he can fly, he sprinkles magic dust all over the place?
The Boss: [angrily] He's a homosexual.
Sloe: The guy we lookin' for. His name is uh, his name is-
Elvis: His name is Nick, man.
Sloe: Nick, yeah. The cat's name is Nick. Now who, who are you?
Slevin: I'm Slevin.(Sloe mutters the name confused for a minute)
Sloe: You got some ID?(Short pause)
Slevin: You see the funny thing about that is I got mugged this morning-
Sloe: Hey! Tell it to the one-legged man, so he can bump it off down the road.
Slevin: Who are you?
The Boss: I'm The Boss.
Slevin: I thought he was The Boss.
The Boss: Why? Do we look alike?
Various Characters: Why do they call him The Rabbi?
Various Characters: Because he's a rabbi.
Slevin's Girlfriend: [after Slevin walks in on her cheating on him] This is an accident.
Slevin: What, like... He tripped, you fell?
Lindsey: How ironic.
Slevin: I know, I don't even gamble.
Lindsey: No. A mobster with a gay son. That's ironic.
Sloe: The Boss wants to see you.
Slevin: Who?
Sloe: The Boss.
Slevin: Who's the Boss?
Sloe: The guy we work for. Sit
Slevin: Look. I'm not the guy you're looking for. I don't live here.
Sloe: Yeah well you look like the guy who lives here.
Slevin: Man, you don't know what the guy who lives here looks like.
Elvis: What he means to say is that you look like you live here.
Sloe: Yeah, that's what I mean to say.
The Boss: [Showing a picture] This was my son. Notice how I said was? That's because he's dead. Relegated to the past tense. Went from an is to a was before he had his breakfast.
Slevin: Bummer.
Slevin: I have ataraxia.
Lindsey: Ataraxia?
Slevin: It's a condition characterized by freedom from worry or any other pre-occupation really.
Smith: There was a time.
Buddy: [wakes up, sees a man in a wheelchair is addressing him, and checks his watch] 4:35.
Smith: You misunderstood. I wasn't asking for the time, I was just saying "there was a time."
Buddy: There was a time?
Smith: Mm-hmm. Take Brown Sugar back there, for example. [indicates elderly woman] She's pretty fucking foxy, right?
Buddy: [pause] She's seventy.
Smith: If she's a day. But there was a time.
The Boss: [after Slevin has just told him he'll take the job killing the Rabbi's son] I knew you had sense.
Slevin: Sense is something you have when you have a choice.
The Boss: Sometimes, and sometimes it's when you know you don't.
Nick: Fuck. Shit. Jesus.
Mr. Goodkat: 'Fuck, Shit, Jesus' is right
The Rabbi: You must be Mr. Fisher.
Slevin: Must I be? Because it hasn't been working out for me lately.
The Rabbi: But I'm afraid you must.
Slevin: Well, if I must.
Brikowski: Who are you?
Slevin: Philosophically speaking?
Brikowski: Name.
Slevin: Rank, serial number?
Dumbrowski: You should really play ball kid.
Slevin: Really? You think I'm tall enough?
[Punches Slevin in the stomach]
Brikowski: What is your name?
Slevin: [gasping for breath] Oh yeah, now I remember, Slevin Kelevra.
Elvis: Wait, wait, wait. Look Nick, Slevin, Clark Kent, whatever the fuck your name is. The fact of the matter is that the Virgin Mary herself could come waltzin' in here right now with her fine ass, titties hangin' out and everything and if she told me your name was Jesus Christ, I still got to take you to see the Boss. You know why?
Slevin: No.
Elvis: Orders. And you do know what orders is right?
Slevin: I think I understand the concept of-
Elvis: Orders is "orders".
Slevin: I guess no one ever taught you not to use the word your defining in the definition.
[Elvis punches him]
Elvis: Nigga say somethin' else. I will break your motherfucking nose. I ain't playin' with you.
Slevin: My nose is already broken.
[flash cut to Slevin in a car with a freshly bloodied nose]
Slevin: How did you find out about us?
Mr. Goodkat: I'm a world-class assassin, fuckhead. How do you think I found out?
Slevin: I'm not gay.
Brikowski: I'm a cop.
Slevin: Well, I'm not a robber, if you catch my drift.
Slevin: Someone's trying to kill you.
Yitzchok: Who?
Slevin: Me.
The Rabbi: There are three things one may not do to save a life including his own. He may not: idol-worship, commit adultery, or perform an act of premeditated murder. Killing you before you killed me would be...
Slevin: Kosher?
The Rabbi: [scathing noise] Acceptable.
Slevin: Anything else you want to tell me?
The Boss: I suppose I don't need to say anything as trite and cliche as "go to the police and you're a dead man".
Slevin: I think you just did.
The Boss: I guess I did.
The Rabbi: [whispering to Slevin] Whatever they're paying you...
[smiles slyly]
Slevin: [chuckles slightly] There is no "they..." I did this to you. Me.
The Rabbi: You?
Slevin: Me.
The Boss: Who are you?
Slevin: Listen, I've been hearing that a lot lately--
The Rabbi: [interrupting] My father used to say: "The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose, the second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk but the third time someone calls you a horse, well then perhaps it's time to go shopping for a saddle."
Mugger: Hey, you got the time?
Slevin: Yeah man, it's about 3:20.
Mugger: Yo, you got a smoke?
Slevin: No sorry, I don't smoke.
Mugger: Well then why don't you just give me your wallet, and I'll buy my own smokes.
Slevin: Am I being mugged?
[He is punched in the nose]
Mr. Goodkat: The reason I'm in town, in case you're wondering, is because of the Kansas City Shuffle.
Nick: What's a Kansas City Shuffle?
Mr. Goodkat: A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, you go left.
Nick: Never heard of it.
Mr. Goodkat: It's not something people hear about. Falls on deaf ears mostly. This particular one has been over twenty years in the making. No small matter. Requires a lot of planning. Involves a lot of people. People connected by the slightest of events. Like whispers in the night, in that place that never forgets, even when those people do. It starts with a horse.
Slevin: This isn't the first time this has happened, you know.
Lindsey: You mean this isn't the first time a crime lord asked you to kill the gay son of a rival gangster to pay off a debt that belongs to a friend whose place you're staying in as a result of losing your job, your apartment, and finding your girlfriend in bed with another guy?
Slevin: No, this is the first time THAT happened, but Nick has been painting me into corners since we were kids.
Lindsey: What happened to your nose?
Slevin: I was using it to break some guy's fist.
The Boss: You? You're the triggerman.
Slevin: Me?
The Boss: You.
Slevin: Aren't there professionals? People you can hire to do this sort of thing?
The Boss: [Laughing] Of course there are. Yes. But you owe me 96,000 dollars. Why should I go out and pay someone else when I've already paid you?
Slevin: Ok, I'm under the impression that you're under the impression that I owe you 96,000 dollars.
The Boss: No, you owe Slim Hopkins 96,000 dollars. You owe Slim, Slim owes me... You owe me.

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