What is Black Mass (movie)?
{{italictitle}} '''''Black Mass''''' is a 2015 [[United States|American]] [[crime movie|crime]] movie directed by [[Scott Cooper (director)|Scott Cooper]] and written by Mark Mallouk and [[Jez Butterworth]]. It is based on the 2001 book ''Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob'' by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. The movie stars [[Johnny Depp]], [[Joel Edgerton]], [[Benedict Cumberbatch]], [[Kevin Bacon]], [[Jesse Plemons]], [[Peter Sarsgaard]], [[Rory Cochrane]], [[Adam Scott (actor)|Adam Scott]], [[Dakota Johnson]], and [[Corey Stoll]]. The movie is about the criminal career of infamous Irish-American mobster [[Whitey Bulger]] (Depp). The movie was released to positive reviews on September 18, 2015. [[Category:2015 crime movies]] [[Category:American crime movies]] [[Category:Movies based on books]] [[Category:Movies set in Boston]] [[Category:Movies set in the 1970s]] [[Category:Movies set in the 1980s]] {{movie-stub}}