The Friends of Eddie Coyle Screening with Ty Burr

Aging Boston gunrunner Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum) is looking at several years of jail time for a hold-up if he doesn’t funnel information to Dave Foley (Richard Jordan), an ATF agent. Eddie buys some guns from another gunrunner, Jackie Brown (Steven Keats), then gives him up to Foley, but the agent isn’t satisfied. Conflicted, Eddie decides to also give up the gang of bank robbers he’s been supplying, only to find that Foley already knows about them, and the mob believes Eddie snitched.

Stay after the movie for a discussion with Ty Burr and The Boston Globe’s Chris Vognar!

Chris Vognar is the TV/Pop Culture Critic at The Boston Globe. He has written about TV, film, books, music, and theater for publications including the Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic. He has covered the Oscars, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival, and is a frequent panelist at the Venice Film Festival. He is also a teacher of courses on film history and arts journalism and was the 2009 Nieman Arts and Culture Fellow at Harvard University.