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Ash Wednesday is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edward Burns released in USA on 11 october 2002 with Edward Burns

Ash Wednesday (2002)

Ash Wednesday
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Released in USA 11 october 2002
Length 1h39
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Action,    Crime
Rating57% 2.8992152.8992152.8992152.8992152.899215

Ash Wednesday is a 2002 crime drama film starring Edward Burns, Elijah Wood, and Rosario Dawson. The film is set in the Hell's Kitchen of the early 1980s and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mafia.

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Hell's Kitchen on Ash Wednesday, 1983; rumors are flying that Francis Sullivan's (Edward Burns) younger brother Sean (Elijah Wood), dead for three years, has reappeared. If he wasn't killed by rivals, then old scores still need settling, putting both Francis and Sean in danger. An upstart is pressuring the local mob boss, who's Francis's protector; Sean's wife, Grace (Rosario Dawson), believes she's a widow and has gotten on with her life, but Sean has come back for her. The parish priest, part of the initial deception, is frightened.
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