 Lucky Number Slevin
Starring: Bruce Willis, Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley
Directed by: Paul McGuigan
Screenplay by: Jason Smilovic
Release Date: April 7th, 2006
Running Time: 110 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for strong violent, sexuality and language.
Box Office: $21,600,000 (US total)
Studio: The Weinstein Company
 Domestic: $22,495,466 (40.0%)
Foreign: $33,813,415 (60.0%)
Total: $56,308,881 (Worldwide)
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 Lucky Number Slevin” is a comic thriller that twists and turns its way through an underworld of crime and revenge where nothing is as it seems. Set in New York City, a case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Josh Hartnett) into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most notorious rival crime bosses: The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman). Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat (Bruce Willis) and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to escape the maze alive.
"Lucky Number Slevin" is set in the world of New York gangsters and follows a case of mistaken identity, which lands Hartnett's character (Slevin) in the middle of a murder being plotted by one of the city's most notorious crime bosses.
Lucky Number Slevin began in screenwriter Jason Smilovic’s imagination in 1997 as a story “about a guy who was just incredibly unlucky,” as Smilovic puts it, and evolved over the years into a clever, dark, genre-bending thriller with surprising plot twists and irreverent characters.
Tyler Mitchell, one of the producers for Film Engine, charts the script’s history: “Robert Kravitz [one of Lucky Number Slevin’s producers] found the script and submitted it to our company.
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