|  USA
/ Showtime / x60 minute episodes / Premieres Sunday 9 July 2006 at 10:00
p.m. ET/PT!
Executive Producers: Blake Master, Henry Bromell, Elizabeth Guber Stephen
Amidst the weathered row
houses and rust-barnacled tugboats framing the port city of Providence,
Rhode Island, lies an Irish-American neighborhood known as “The Hill.”
There, the old-world ways of street justice and loyalty still permeate
through the tough blue-collar neighborhood. It is where the familial
bonds of the Caffee brothers are constantly teetering above a moral
abyss, something akin to the classic sibling fable of Cain and Abel.
BROTHERHOOD tells the story
of two brothers who sometimes share a twisted sense of moral compromise
— both with their own skewed, idealistic visions of what makes the
American dream. They live the lie that noble ends can sometimes only be
accomplished through dubious means.
Tommy Caffee (JASON CLARKE)
is a family man whose ambition and street smarts help him navigate the
back-room dealings and underhanded tactics of Providence politics. He is
a local politician out to protect “The Hill” and its interests by
any means necessary. Tommy’s complicated family and professional lives
turn upside-down with the return of his gangster brother Mike (JASON
ISAACS), who has come back to the neighborhood to regain control of its
underworld activities.
Caught in the turbulent
crossfire of a tense, conflicted relationship between two brothers is
their mother, Rose (FIONNULA FLANAGAN), who is proud of both sons, to
the point where she turns a blind eye to Mike’s shady, sometimes
deadly dealings — even when he passes her counterfeit money as a gift.
Then there is Tommy’s
wife, Eileen (ANNABETH GISH), who tirelessly supports her husband but is
constantly wary of how Mike potentially places Tommy and their children
in harm’s way.
Their path is a minefield
of shifting alliances, leaving the brothers constantly in doubt about
who they can trust. Mike’s close confidante, Pete McGonagle (STIVI
PASKOSKI), is a recovering alcoholic struggling to stay straight but who
easily reverts back to his role as Mike’s enforcer. Then there is
competing gangland boss Freddie Cork (KEVIN CHAPMAN), who regularly
threatens Tommy with blackmail (or Mike’s life) in order to secure
sweetheart city contracts.
Even if Tommy can protect
his brother Mike’s life and business interests with his own brand of
backroom dealings, he knows that police detective Declan Giggs (ETHAN
EMBRY) is always lurking in surveillance and monitoring his every move.
Driven by their mutual
resentment and rivalry, the Caffee brothers embark on a dangerous
course, where their love and loyalty will be tested like never before.
The duality of both men and their lives interweave to create a volatile
dynamic that could destroy both of them…and both of their families.
cast
Jason Isaacs as Michael Caffee
| Karl Bury as Alex Byrne / Kevin Chapman as Freddi Cork / Jason Clarke as Tommy Caffee
/ William DeCoff as Smallface Brennan / Ethan Embry as Declan Giggs / Fionnula Flanagan as Rose Caffee
/ Madison Garland as Lila / Michael Gaston as Mr. Speaker / Annabeth Gish as Eileen Caffee
/ Kerry O'Malley as Mary Kate Martinson / T. Bruce Page as Billy Bee / Stivi Paskoski as Pete McGonagle
/ Frank Ridley as Terry Mulligan / Al Sapienza as The Mayor of Providence
/ Brian Scannell as Silent John / Bates Wilder as Jimmy Martinson
©2006 CBS Broadcasting
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