Mob Adjacent Film
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    • About the Film
    • The World of Mob Adjacent
    • Meet the Brothers
    • Reels & Videos
    • Media Coverage
    • Friends and Family
  • Home
  • About the Film
  • The World of Mob Adjacent
  • Meet the Brothers
  • Reels & Videos
  • Media Coverage
  • Friends and Family

About the Film

A chance meeting

A chance meeting led actor and filmmaker Gino Cafarelli to a book about two very different brothers whose idea of normal was anything but normal. Cafarelli became convinced that their unprecedented first-person accounts of life at the intersection of Hoodlum and Gangster needed to be told on the screen.

Building a team

Cafarelli and fellow producer Carmine Famiglietti (Here After, Check Point,  Amexicano) worked with brothers Jeffrey and Michael Gentile, Jr. to find that one moment that encapsulated their unusual upbringing among hoodlums and gangsters - not in the mob, but near the mob -- what the brothers called "mob adjacent."

The world of Mob Adjacent

Set on a single day -- November 18, 1963 -- Mob Adjacent finds the Gentile family turning to an old friend from their old neighborhood for help solving a dangerous problem. Cafarelli, Famiglietti, director of photography Mauricio Vasquez, and production designer Alan Bruckner set about recreating 1963 Chicago in 2025 New York.

Press release

To come. 

Meet the cast

Mob Adjacent: A film by Gino Cafarelli

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