Mink Larouie (Miller’s Crossing). Mink Larouie is a fictional character in the Coen Brothers 1990 gangster film Miller’s Crossing. He is played by actor Steve Buscemi.

Larouie is a crooked bookie involved with Bernie Bernbaum. Mink is a fast talking grifter who tries the play the nice guy, when in reality he is trying to con his friends out of money. Bernie and Mink find themselves in trouble with mob boss Johnny Caspar for allegedly cutting in on his fixed boxing matches. Johnny Caspar tries to convince Irish mob boss Leo O’Bannon that what the two are doing with the fixed fighting is cutting in on his business and unethical. When Mink learns that Bernie has been murdered in the woods at Miller’s Crossing, he tries to skip to town but is then intercepted by Bernie, who was still alive. Bernie then takes Mink’s body to the woods at Miller’s Crossing, the exact spot where his dead body was supposed to be located.

Mink Larouie does not appear in the film very much and is a minor character in the story of Miller’s Crossing. Although Mink’s character is minor, his dead body that is found in the woods does serve as a turning point in the film and keeps the audience wondering what is going to happen next.—Kelly Kerr