The Brothers Rico
A retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the organization, decide to go to the authorities. Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia bo…
The Brothers Rico
A retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the organization, decide to go to the authorities. Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who are on the lam after a big hit, forcing Eddie to get involved with the Mafia again. —Volker Boehm / Hans Delbruck Eddie Rico, a former accountant for crime-boss Sid Kubic, has gone straight, with the blessings of Kubic who owed his life to Rico's mother when she stopped a bullet meant for him. Eddie and his wife, Alice, are looking to adopt a baby when Eddie learns that the syndicate is looking for his brother, so they can get him out of the country before the police can find and question him. Eddie finds him, but the mobsters double-cross him and kill his brother just as they had killed another brother of Eddie's. Eddie decides to go to the police but Kubic puts out the word to get him also. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> The Rico family has long been involved in the New York based mob. Eddie Rico, once the mob accountant, and his wife Alice Rico moved from New York to Bayshore, Florida three years ago to lead a straight life - Eddie now running a successful commercial laundering business - which also includes their want to start a family through adoption in they unable to conceive. When Eddie's old mob boss Sid Kubik, via a subordinate, asks Eddie to harbor someone in his laundering business, Eddie has no qualms solely because Sid is the one person that he trusts in the organization in Mama Rico once having taken a bullet for Sid. In doing this favor and hearing through Mama that his two younger brothers, Gino and Johnny, have gone missing, Eddie learns that the two issues are connected in a mob hit. While Gino and Johnny used to be much like Eddie in being more on the administrative end of the organization, they were both directly involved in the hit, Gino the trigger, Johnny the getaway driver. Eddie further eventually learns that Gino and Johnny's disappearance was in they trying to escape the life themselves in being scared following the hit, Johnny's situation more difficult in his new brother-in-law, Peter Malaks, having gone to the District Attorney about Johnny. To save Johnny from whatever is happening, Sid hands Eddie an envelope full of cash in the directive to locate Johnny, the money to help him leave the country for good. In the process, Eddie will discover if any of them can ever really leave the organization on their own terms. —Huggo In Miami, the former mafia accountant Eddie Rico is happily married with Alice Rico and runs a legit laundry shop business. They are trying to adopt a child but, out of the blue, Eddie is contacted by phone in the middle of the night by the mobster Phil that asks him to hire a man to work in his laundry. Then his brother Gino Rico meets him on the street and tells him that he has killed a powerful mobster and their brother Johnny Rico has driven the getaway car. Eddie tells Gino to travel to St. Lois as ordered by the mafia, instead of traveling abroad as he wished to go. He receives another phone call from Phil that asks him to travel to Miami to meet the mob boss Sid Kubik that wants to see him. He travels and meets "uncle" Sid, who was saved by Eddie's mother in the past from a bullet and is considered as a member of his family. Sid tells him that the organization bosses are looking for Johnny, who got married with Norah Malaks and vanished. Nora's brother Peter Malaks went to the D.A. office many times and the bosses are concerned that he is cutting a deal to Johnny betray them. Sid gives money and a plane ticket to New York expecting that Eddie meets his brother and asks him to travel to Mexico. Eddie travels to New York to search Johnny, but finds betrayal and the truth about uncle Sid's real intention. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Brothers Rico
Crime,Drama,Film-Noir
Film Details
A retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the organization, decide to go to the authorities. Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who are on the lam after a big hit, forcing Eddie to get involved with the Mafia again.
—Volker Boehm / Hans Delbruck Eddie Rico, a former accountant for crime-boss Sid Kubic, has gone straight, with the blessings of Kubic who owed his life to Rico's mother when she stopped a bullet meant for him. Eddie and his wife, Alice, are looking to adopt a baby when Eddie learns that the syndicate is looking for his brother, so they can get him out of the country before the police can find and question him. Eddie finds him, but the mobsters double-cross him and kill his brother just as they had killed another brother of Eddie's.
Eddie decides to go to the police but Kubic puts out the word to get him also. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> The Rico family has long been involved in the New York based mob. Eddie Rico, once the mob accountant, and his wife Alice Rico moved from New York to Bayshore, Florida three years ago to lead a straight life - Eddie now running a successful commercial laundering business - which also includes their want to start a family through adoption in they unable to conceive.
When Eddie's old mob boss Sid Kubik, via a subordinate, asks Eddie to harbor someone in his laundering business, Eddie has no qualms solely because Sid is the one person that he trusts in the organization in Mama Rico once having taken a bullet for Sid. In doing this favor and hearing through Mama that his two younger brothers, Gino and Johnny, have gone missing, Eddie learns that the two issues are connected in a mob hit. While Gino and Johnny used to be much like Eddie in being more on the administrative end of the organization, they were both directly involved in the hit, Gino the trigger, Johnny the getaway driver.
Eddie further eventually learns that Gino and Johnny's disappearance was in they trying to escape the life themselves in being scared following the hit, Johnny's situation more difficult in his new brother-in-law, Peter Malaks, having gone to the District Attorney about Johnny. To save Johnny from whatever is happening, Sid hands Eddie an envelope full of cash in the directive to locate Johnny, the money to help him leave the country for good. In the process, Eddie will discover if any of them can ever really leave the organization on their own terms.
—Huggo In Miami, the former mafia accountant Eddie Rico is happily married with Alice Rico and runs a legit laundry shop business. They are trying to adopt a child but, out of the blue, Eddie is contacted by phone in the middle of the night by the mobster Phil that asks him to hire a man to work in his laundry. Then his brother Gino Rico meets him on the street and tells him that he has killed a powerful mobster and their brother Johnny Rico has driven the getaway car.
Eddie tells Gino to travel to St. Lois as ordered by the mafia, instead of traveling abroad as he wished to go. He receives another phone call from Phil that asks him to travel to Miami to meet the mob boss Sid Kubik that wants to see him.
He travels and meets "uncle" Sid, who was saved by Eddie's mother in the past from a bullet and is considered as a member of his family. Sid tells him that the organization bosses are looking for Johnny, who got married with Norah Malaks and vanished. Nora's brother Peter Malaks went to the D.A.
office many times and the bosses are concerned that he is cutting a deal to Johnny betray them. Sid gives money and a plane ticket to New York expecting that Eddie meets his brother and asks him to travel to Mexico. Eddie travels to New York to search Johnny, but finds betrayal and the truth about uncle Sid's real intention.
—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.