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Coen-ography: 13 Films of Joel and Ethan Coen

MILLER'S CROSSING (1990)
A handsome, autumnal homage to 1930s gangster movies and crime fiction (particularly Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key), the film is also a crackling-good crime epic about warring ethnic organized crime syndicates. Caught in the middle is Tom (Gabriel Byrne), right-hand man of boss Leo (Albert Finney, in a majestic performance) and also secret lover of Leo's mistress, Verna (Marcia Gay Harden, in her first big movie role). The movie was the first hint that the Coens weren't just film-school tricksters, that they might be capable of something grander.