Boardwalk Empire - Pilot (TV)

2010 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Thriller Drama Neo-noir 1920s Crime Mafia Based on True Stories TV Movie

January 1920. On the eve of Prohibition, Atlantic City's Treasurer, Nucky Thompson, condemns alcohol at a Women's Temperance League meeting, where he is noticed by Margaret Schroeder, a pretty, pregnant housewife who comes to him for help in getting her abusive husband Hans a job. Later that evening, the duplicitous Nucky privately tells his ward bosses about the opportunity to make huge profits selling bootleg liquor. At a countdown-to-midnight blast at Babette's Supper Club, he assures Jimmy Darmody, a recently returned WWI vet, that his appointment as "Man Friday" to the new Chief Clerk of the Fourth Ward, Paddy Ryan, will lead to bigger things. Jimmy, meanwhile, has higher aspirations and ends up making an alliance that could have dire consequences for both him and Nucky.

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Steve Buscemi · Michael Pitt · Kelly MacDonald · Michael Shannon · Shea Whigham · Aleksa Palladino · Paz de la Huerta · Stephen Graham · Michael Stuhlbarg · Vincent Piazza · Anthony Laciura · Paul Sparks · Greg Antonacci · Joe Sikora · Dabney Coleman · Michael Kenneth Williams · William Hill