Biggest Mob Movie since The Godfather has Naples, Florida connections....Some stories are too large to be fiction. Too strange to be invented. Too raw, too contradictory, too human to be smoothed into legend. My Buddy from Brooklyn is one of those stories.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of postwar New York, the golden age of American horse racing, and the shadowed corridors of organized crime, My Buddy from Brooklyn is a sweeping true-crime drama inspired by the astonishing life of Howard “Buddy” Jacobson—once one of the most successful racehorse trainers in the United States, later one of its most notorious fugitives.
This is not a nostalgia piece.
This is not a sanitized biopic.
This is not a mob movie that glorifies violence for spectacle alone.
Brooklyn was not a borough back then. It was a nation-state.
It had its own rules, its own hierarchies, its own currencies—respect, fear, loyalty, silence. From Bay Ridge to Bensonhurst, from racetracks to back rooms, Brooklyn bred men who understood systems be
