Millers Crossing stars Gabriel Byrne, four-time Academy Award nominee Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito and J.E. Freeman. Set in 1929 in an unnamed Eastern city, it's the compelling story of the friendship between Leo (Finney), the local political boss, and Tom (Byrne), the man behind the man. Their friendship is severed when Leo and Tom fall in love with the same woman. Tom joins ranks with Johnny Caspar, Leo's foremost enemy and rival for political power, and a bloody gang war erupts.
For a better perspective on the movie, read Dashiell Hammett's "The Glass Key": much of the film's brilliant dialogue is directly from the Novel.