U2

Both the film and the soundtrack feature powerful live performances of Cohen masterpieces by an impressive array of today's top singer/songwriters. "Has moments so gorgeous they brought me to tears."--Entertainment Weekly. "...One of the finest works of the last decade..."--Q.

In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After a bloody clash Vallon is dead and his son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns to seek vengeance against the man that killed his father.