The Departed

2006 · 151 min · dir. Martin Scorsese

The Departed is a 2006 crime thriller film, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. A remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, it is also loosely based on real-life people, including the Winter Hill Gang, corrupt FBI agent John Connolly and Irish-American crime boss Whitey Bulger. The film is set primarily in South Boston; Irish Mob boss Frank Costello plants Colin Sullivan as a spy within the Massachusetts State Police; simultaneously, the police assign undercover state trooper Billy Costigan to infiltrate Costello's mob crew. The ensemble cast also features Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Alec Baldwin, Anthony Anderson and James Badge Dale. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.