How Chicago-bred filmmaker Graham Moore turned his grandfather’s brush with the mob into ‘The Outfit’
CHICAGO — Graham Moore is 40, a relatively new husband (married in 2019), an even newer father (son born in 2021), an Academy Award winner (for his screenplay “The Imitation Game”) and a Chicago-raised resident of L.A.'s Silver Lake neighborhood. He’s half a novelist, half a screenwriter, though already the math has gone flooey: Moore’s movie life now includes a co-writer/director credit for his feature directorial debut, currently in theaters.
“The Outfit,” an eccentric and rewarding addition to Chicago underworld mythology, stars Oscar winner Mark Rylance as a British “cutter” of exquisite handmade suits. Mistaken frequently for a common tailor, this man, Leonard Burling, has relocated for shadowy reasons to Chicago, where his shop’s clientele includes mob kingpins and their associates.
Set in the 1950s, “The
