The Crew (2000 film)

Four retired mobsters: Bobby Bartellemeo - the no-nonsense leader, Bats Pistella - a cantankerous man with a short fuse and a pacemaker, Mouth Donato - a silent ladies' man many years past his prime, and Brick Donatelli - a man who still sends Christmas cards to everyone he has ever worked with, are worried they will no longer be able to afford their South Beach apartment when rents go up due to it becoming a hot spot for young affluent couples. The four plan to stage a murder in the lobby of their building, hoping to make the apartment building undesirable to new tenants, and steal a corpse from the mortuary to use as the "victim." Unknown to them, the body is that of Luis Ventanna, the senile father of Raoul Ventanna, head of a Colombian drug smuggling ring. As a result of the "murder," many of the young renters leave and the four men are given cash and a rent discount by the complex to keep living there.

Bobby has been paying a private detective to find his daughter, Olivia, whom he hasn't seen since she was a child, but the others spend their shares of the windfall recklessly. Mouth begins frequenting a strip club and paying attention to a young dancer named Ferris Lowenstein. Mouth, who becomes talkative after intimacy with a woman, reveals to Ferris that he and his friends staged the murder. In return for her silence, Ferris asks them to kill her stepmother, Pepper. They agree, but kidnap Pepper instead, planning to fake her death by setting fire to her mansion. In the process, they burn down the mansion next door, which belongs to Ventanna.

Believing that someone is trying to usurp his power, Ventanna offers $100,000 to anyone who brings him the head of the man responsible. This results in a confrontation at the apartment, leading to the capture of Mouth, Ferris, Pepper and Detectives Olivia Neal and Steve Menteer, the police officers who have been investigating the original "murder." The other wiseguys escape this conflict, and follow the kidnappers to the docks where the prisoners are being held.

Brick calls all of their still-living former associates and they lay siege to the ship. During the rescue, Detective Menteer is revealed to be on Ventanna's payroll and Bobby recognizes Detective Neal as his now-grown daughter. The wiseguys then turn the ship, the drug smugglers, and the dirty cop over to the police, along with a shipment of drugs. A truckload of Cuban cigars is taken by the four friends and used to make their apartment complex into "a retirement home for old wiseguys who are down on their luck."

• Richard Dreyfuss as Bobby Bartellemeo
  • Casey Siemaszko as Young Bobby Bartellemeo
• Burt Reynolds as Joey "Bats" Pistella
  • Matthew Borlenghi as Young Joey "Bats" Pistella
• Dan Hedaya as Mike "The Brick" Donatelli
  • Jeremy Ratchford as Young Mike "The Brick" Donatelli
• Seymour Cassel as Tony "Mouth" Donato
  • Billy Jayne as Young Tony "Mouth" Donato
• Carrie-Anne Moss as Detective Olivia Neal
  • Samantha Kurzman as Young Olivia Neal
• Jennifer Tilly as Maureen "Ferris" Lowenstein
• Lainie Kazan as Pepper Lowenstein
• Miguel Sandoval as Raul Ventana
• Jeremy Piven as Detective Steve Menteer
• Mike Moroff as Jorge
• José Zúñiga as Escobar
• Carlos Gomez as Miguel
• Louis Guss as Jerry "The Hammer" Fungo
• Joseph Rigano as Frankie "Rash" Decuello
• Ron Karabatsos as Fat Pauly
• Frank Vincent as Marty
• Marc Macaulay as Driver
• Cullen Douglas as Young Man
• Louis Lombardi as Jimmy "Whistles"
• Lorri Bagley as Sofa Girl
• Antoni Corone as Officer
• Fyvush Finkel as Sol Lowenstein
• Christa Campbell as Nurse
• Allan F. Nicholls as Wiseguy