GANGS OF NEW YORK is the story of the origins of New York, in the Civil War era where it was not yet a city, but "a furnace where a city might be forged." When the leader of the Dead Rabbits gang is killed by the leader of "the natives" (who've been in the U.S. for generations) in a huge and brutal skirmish, his young son, Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio), is taken to an orphanage/reformatory. He returns twenty years later, determined to finish his father's fight. By this time, the man who killed his father, Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis) runs just about everything in the sprawling area called "Five Points." In Five Points, Amsterdam recognizes some of his father's supporters, including Happy Jack (John C. Reilly) and McGloin (Gary Lewis). The only one who recognizes him is Johnny (Henry Thomas). Amsterdam infiltrates Bill the Butcher's inner circle, and when he begins to treat Amsterdam like a son, the boy who lost his father cannot help but respond. Amsterdam also begins to care for a pickpocket/thief, and sometimes prostitute named Jenny (Cameron Diaz).

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