Joe and Dion kill Albert's men in Tampa as they horn in on the rum business, much to the gangster's rage. Joe becomes smitten with Esteban's sister Graciella (Zoe Saldana). They meet a Cuban businessman named Esteban Suarez (Miguel) to help them out. Joe reunites with Dion and heads down to Ybor to start working. Maso has Joe relocate to Ybor City in Tampa, Florida to be the strongman for Maso's rum business. With nothing and nobody left for him, Joe goes to Maso and asks for work in getting revenge against Albert. Two weeks before Joe is set to be released, Thomas passes away.
Chief Inspector Calvin Bondurant (Clark Gregg) wants to put Joe in prison for life for the death of the officers, but Thomas blackmails him into giving Joe only three years. He is pulled outside where Albert and his goons plan to kill him, but Thomas and his squad arrive, forcing Albert and his men to leave. One of Albert's large thugs pulls Joe out and starts beating him mercilessly, even kicking Joe in the groin hard enough to make him puke. They hop inside an elevator and kiss passionately before Emma regretfully reveals it was a trap. Joe rushes over to a casino to meet with Emma so they can skip town. When he comes to, he sees the burning cop car in the river and he flees. The cops pursue both cars, leading to a chase down the street that ends up causing the cop cars to crash and burn, along with Joe being ejected from his car. Dion and their other partner make it to another car while Joe stays in the first getaway car. They are immediately pursued by cops as Joe cannot get the hang of the getaway car, crashing into a civilian car before speeding away. Joe and his partner Dion Bartolo (Chris Messina) pull off a bank robbery. He wants Joe to take Albert out, otherwise he will let Albert know about Joe's affair with Emma. Joe meets Maso Pescatore (Remo Girone), an Italian gangster who is Albert's rival.
Emma is clearly upset by Thomas's behavior with her over dinner, but Joe tries to assure her that Thomas doesn't have a problem with her. Thomas makes a comment regarding one of Emma's relatives, indicating he disapproves of her. Joe and Emma have dinner together and are met by Joe's father Thomas (Brendan Gleeson), a police captain. Emma is already the girlfriend of the Irish gang boss Albert White (Robert Glenister), but she and Joe see each other whenever Albert is out of town. In reality, Emma was Joe's "inside man", but he is head-over-heels in love with her. Joe and two of his partners rob a gangster and pretend to take a woman, Emma Gould (Sienna Miller), as a hostage. In the years since he returned home to Boston, he had tried to do good, but he would eventually go down a different path. Set in the 1920s, the film starts with the voice of Joe Coughlin (Ben Affleck) discussing his time fighting in France back in 1918 during World War I, and how he witnessed many good men die for nothing.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spellbinding tour de force of betrayal and redemption, music and murder, that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin was cause for celebration and vice was a national virtue. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw.
Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.īoston, 1926.
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