THE OUTFIT (2022)

Name: THE OUTFIT (2022)
Item: THE OUTFIT (2022)
Author: Tess Farrand

“Cleverly Plotted Gangster Movie”

Family Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

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THE OUTFIT is an entertaining crime thriller. Leonard is the meticulous English owner of a small tailor shop in Chicago in 1956. Regrettably, the local gangsters in his neighborhood are using his shop as a drop box to contact the Outfit, the organization that runs all the major gangs in the country. The local gangsters discover they have a mole in their gang who’s working with the FBI. One night, the head gangster’s right-hand man, Francis, and his wounded son, Richie, show up at the tailor shop with the latest tape. The situation gets complicated, and Leonard has to think fast before Francis puts a bullet in him.

THE OUTFIT has many surprising, terrific, clever plot twists. Mark Rylance holds the movie together as the mysterious, meticulous owner of the tailor shop. Also, the tailor shop owner turns the tables on the mobsters, some of whom end up dead, even killing one another. However, THE OUTFIT contains lots of strong foul language and some bloody violence. Also, there’s some morally questionable business involving a gang payoff. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Humanist tale of survival, with gangsters getting their just desserts, and man protects woman from the gangsters

Foul Language:

84 obscenities (mostly “f” words) and six GD profanities

Violence:

A man is forced to stitch up another man’s gunshot wound that went into his stomach and through his back and stomach, two gangsters fight, and one man slits the other man’s throat, killer mops up the gangster’s blood on floor, killer stuffs dead man’s corpse into a trunk, gangsters threaten to torture woman, two other gangsters shoot another gangster, arson, two men fight to the death, and a man is stabbed

Sex:

No sex scenes but a gangster’s son and a woman who works at the tailor shop in the movie enter the shop one night and passionately kiss

Nudity:

Upper male nudity when two men try to fix a man’s gunshot wound

Alcohol Use:

Brief alcohol use

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

Some smoking but no drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

One of the movie’s morally questionable subplots involves the exchange of some money for a secret FBI tape, and there’s some deceit and betrayal involved.

More Detail:

THE OUTFIT is a crime thriller about the English owner of a small tailor shop in Chicago in 1956 who must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters who’ve forced him to use his shop for a mob drop box. THE OUTFIT has many surprising, terrific plot twists, and the mobsters get their just desserts, but the movie has excessive foul language, graphic violence and some morally questionable business involving a gang payoff, so MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.

Leonard is the English owner of a small tailor shop in Chicago in 1856. He has a mysterious past but is a meticulous cutter and stitcher of the 38 pieces of fabric that go into making a superior suit. Regrettably, the local gangsters in his neighborhood are using his shop as a drop box to contact the Outfit, the organization that runs all the major gangs in the country.

The local gangsters discover they have a mole in their gang who’s working with the FBI to bug them. However, the head gangster’s son, Richie, and his right hand man, Francis, get hold of one of the tapes, but Richie was shot in the stomach by a rival gang. They decide to meet Richie’s father at the tailor shop, where Francis forces Leonard to sew up Richie’s wound. The situation gets complicated, however, and Leonard has to think fast before Francis turns around and decides to put a bullet in him.