State of Grace (1990)
Directed by Phil Joanou
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
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What critics compared State of Grace to
In a world where movies like State of Grace, Carlito’s Way, The Departed, Eastern Promises, and other dark double crossing mafia dramas didn’t exist, We Own the Night might have worked.
In September of 1990, director Phil Joanou's Irish-gangster drama State of Grace had the misfortune of opening in limited release just one week prior to Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas opening in wide release.
However, in spite of the improvement, it still just misses ranking in the upper echelon on mob movies such as GoodFellas, Casino, The Godfather films, State of Grace and Once Upon a Time in America.