The Departed | reviewed by: Scott McKay | August 9, 2011
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genre | Drama | Thriller |
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synopsis | To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise in Martin Scorsese's multiple Oscar-winning crime thriller. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them. |
lead actors | Leonardo DiCaprio | Jack Nicholson | Mark Wahlberg | Matt Damon | Dick Hughes | Ray Winstone | Anthony Anderson | Alec Baldwin | David O'Hara | Vera Farmiga | Kevin Corrigan | James Badge Dale | Robert Wahlberg | Kristen Dalton | Thomas B. Duffy | Martin Sheen |
director | Martin Scorsese |