Jennifer Lawrence is to star in
Paolo Sorrentino's new film Mob Girl adapted from Teresa
Carpenter's Pulitzer-winning true-crime story, Variety said
Wednesday.
Sorrentino, of The Great Beauty fame, will produce the
project with Lorenzo Mieli of Wildside with Lawrence also
producing, it said.
The film is based on the life of the mob wife turned police
informant Arlyne Brickman.
It follows Brickman who grows up among racketeers on the
Lower East Side of New York City where she's drawn to the
glamorous and flashy lifestyle of New York mobsters.
Soon after, she begins dating "wiseguys" and running errands
for them, before getting in on the action herself - eventually
becoming a police informant and a major witness in the
government's case against the Colombo crime family.
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