Knockaround Guys (2001) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Matty is the central protagonist, the son of mob boss Benny Chains who wants to prove he is ready for serious criminal work. He leads the search for the missing money, confronts local authorities and...
Chris is the jilted son of a mobster and one of Matty's friends. He helps search for the missing money, later urges Johnny to leave when the situation becomes dangerous, and returns to the warehouse,...
Benny is Matty's father and a mob boss who initially limits his son's responsibilities, giving him only menial work and distrusting him with important business. After Matty and Taylor return the money...
Teddy is an associate of Matty's father who judged Matty as a child and later helps him obtain permission for the Spokane assignment. He eventually arrives armed for the exchange, admits stealing from...
Taylor is one of Matty's friends and helps him investigate the missing money. He violently beats a man at a local bar to obtain information, accompanies Matty to the warehouse exchange, survives the g...
Johnny is Matty's friend and the pilot sent to retrieve a package from Spokane. After losing the bag at the airport, he reports the failure and joins the search. He refuses to abandon the others, prot...
Sheriff Decker is the local sheriff whose son is connected to the missing money. He confiscates the cash from the teenage baggage handlers, chooses to keep it despite opposition, and later agrees to a...
Deputy Ward works with the sheriff during the conflict over the missing money. He opposes the decision to keep the cash, arrives with the sheriff when Matty confronts the family, and attends the wareh...
Matty at 13 appears in the opening incident that establishes his conflict with mob life. Teddy forces the young Matty to choose whether to kill or spare the man responsible for his father's arrest; Ma...
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Deputy Ward objects when Sheriff Decker decides to keep the confiscated money, but Decker overrules him.
Teddy is described as Benny's associate and later admits he has been stealing from Benny.
Years later, Teddy helps Matty persuade Benny to let him retrieve the package in Spokane.
Teddy forces young Matty to decide whether to kill or spare the man responsible for his father's arrest, then judges him unfit for mob work.
The opening presents young Matty, while the later story follows Matty as an adult.
Benny Chains is identified as Matty's mob boss father, and Matty seeks his approval throughout the story.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Teddy's associates ask Johnny where Chris is, and Johnny is shot after refusing to disclose the information.
Ward is present when the sheriff confiscates the money and when the authorities confront Matty's group.
Sheriff Decker confiscates the money and later agrees to meet Matty for an exchange at a warehouse.
Chris and Taylor accompany Matty during the search for the missing money and are both connected to the warehouse confrontation.
Chris tries to convince Johnny to leave because he fears they are too deeply involved.
Matty brings Taylor to investigate the missing money, and the two later attend the warehouse exchange together.
Matty brings Chris, along with Taylor, to help locate the missing package.
Matty commissions his friend Johnny to fly to Spokane, retrieve the package, and return immediately.
Matty's attempt to prove himself in organized crime ultimately leads him to reject the violent organization that defines his family.
Directed by Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Knockaround Guys (2001) · 6.1/10 · crime, thriller
Plot analysis generated from content on Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Related entry on Wikidata (Q1777358), public domain (CC0).