An elite police squad fights to save the city of Los Angeles from a power-hungry East Coast mobster in this gritty police detective film set in the 1940s, and based on Paul Lieberman's seven part Los Angeles Times series "Tales From the Gangster Squad." Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Ryan Gosling star in a film directed by Ruben Fleisher (Zombieland) and featuring Nick Nolte, Michael Peña, Emma Stone, and Robert Patrick. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi