Lucky Number Slevin (also known as The Wrong Man in Australia) is a 2006 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Jason Smilovic.

[6][7] The film stars Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Ben Kingsley, and Morgan Freeman.

In a bus terminal, a young man is approached by Goodkat, who tells the story of Max: two decades earlier, Max borrowed money from the Mob to bet on a fixed horse race after eavesdropping on conversations between mobsters, only for the horse to die mid-race.

To set an example to make sure nobody else will try to bet on a fixed race, the Mob killed Max, his wife, and his son Henry.

Goodkat then describes the "Kansas City Shuffle", a misleading double bluff, and kills the young man, taking the body in a truck.

Mistaking Slevin for Nick, The Boss orders him to repay a gambling debt or kill the son of his rival, "The Rabbi".

Meanwhile, it becomes apparent that Goodkat is involved with both sides, that he is responsible for Nick's debts being called in, and that he plans to kill Slevin after Yitzchok dies and make it look like they both committed suicide.

The critical consensus states, "Trying too hard to be clever in a Pulp Fiction kind of way, this film succumbs to a convoluted plot, overly-stylized characters, and dizzying set design.

[16] In November 2023, amid the recognition of LGBT as an "extremist organization" in Russia, the film was censored on Kinopoisk: the word "fairy" (Russian: голубок) was bleeped out in the trailer.

[18] According to representatives of the Kinopoisk platform, the copyright holder of the movie Lucky Number Slevin decided to censor out the word "fairy" from the picture.