Kings of South Beach
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Directed by | Tim Hunter |
Produced by | Nicholas Pileggi Van Vandegrift Kip Konwiser |
Written by | Nicholas Pileggi |
Starring | Donnie Wahlberg Jason Gedrick Steven Bauer |
Music by | Dave Brain |
Cinematography | Patrick Cady |
Edited by | Sunny Hodge |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Kings of South Beach is a film written by Nicholas Pileggi about an infamous operator of nightclubs in the South Beach section of Miami Beach, Florida. The lead character is portrayed by Jason Gedrick; his best friend is portrayed by Donnie Wahlberg. The film premiered on March 12, 2007 on the A&E Network.
Background
The film is loosely based on a true story about the exploits of Chris Paciello, a transplanted New Yorker who was involved with the Mafia back in his hometown. He built a house of cards in South Beach, founded on models, money, and celebrity friends, including Madonna.
After an intense undercover investigation, Paciello was arrested on racketeering and murder charges, and went on to testify against known members and associates of the Colombo and Bonanno crime families.
Reception
New York Post critic Linda Stasi rates Kings of South Beach as a "four star film" with a casting described as “perfect.”[1] Robert Bianco of USA Today describes "Gedrick and Wahlberg as absolutely first-rate, as these fine actors tend to be."[2] Scott Weinberg of DVD Talk-Review, however, called it "obvious, listless, and completely predictable from start to finish", and said that "Kings of South Beach is little more than a very thin retread of several much better crime stories."[3]
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External links
- Kings of South Beach
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Kings of South Beach at IMDb
- About Kings of South Beach, from A&E
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