After witnessing his father’s torture, an unpredictable Irish street tough uses violently horrific methods to take revenge and fights to become the most ruthless leader of 1970’s New York before an older generation of gangsters stops him.

SYNOPSIS:

After witnessing his father’s torture as a child, Jimmy Coonan uses brutal methods to take down gentleman gangster Michael Spillane and become the top dog of New York CIty’s west side. In the 1970s, the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood is full of corrupt institutions from the local precinct down to the Catholic Church. Criminals on all sides are out to get what they think rightfully belongs to them before a rival does first. The Westies is the true story of the rise and fall of one of the most violent and feared Irish gangs in the history of organized crime.