Sports Film Of The Week: Playing For The Mob

Goodfellas meets Hoosiers.

Title: Playing For The Mob

Released: 2014

Director: Joe Lavine and Cayman Grant

Plot: A true tale which brings together two of our favourite things: basketball and gangster movies. Mob figures immortalised in “Goodfellas” like Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke feature in a story of college hoops points shaving in Boston.

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