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Nick Wasicsko takes office as mayor of Yonkers in 1987 and has to face the issue of building public housing in the white, middle-class side of town.

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Gill Crawford

In the late 1980s in the New York borough of Yonkers, a fight broke out over the desegregation of public housing and the siting of low-income housing in more affluent neighbourhoods. Not the stuff of primetime drama, you might think, but this has an impeccable pedigree — it’s written by The Wire creator David Simon, directed by Oscar-winner Paul Haggis and it has a strong cast. Nick Wasicsko (Oscar Isaac) is a young Democrat standing for mayor, and we see him doing everything an ambitious politico has to do (including wooing the incumbent’s secretary).

The period detail is great and the soundtrack is wall-to-wall Springsteen. Utterly compelling.

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7.9/10

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rolenameVinni RestianoWinona RyderHenry J SpalloneAlfred MolinaNick WasicskoOscar IsaacNay Noe WasicskoCarla Quevedo

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