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- Robert De Niro
- Joe Pesci
- Ray Liotta
- Paul Sorvino
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Goodfellas Release in:1990
Running Time:146 minutes
Director:Martin Scorsese
Genre:Crime, Drama
Keywords:Witness-Protection-Program, cigar, cigarette, Yakuza,
Mob, gang, gangster, Mafia, family, informant, snitch, informer,
robber, heist, theft, thief, robbery, killer, killing, kill,
maniac, smuggler, smuggling
Plot Lines:Business(mischief), Friendship, Gangsters, Betrayal
Goodfellas is Martin Scorsese's electrifying adaptation of
Nicholas Pileggi's true-life book Wiseguy, which tells the story
of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), a mobster who entered the Witness
Protection Program after testifying against his Mafia family.
Full of quick cuts, rock & roll, and violence, the film follows
the half-Irish, half-Italian Hill from childhood in
Brooklyn--where he grew up fantasizing about joining the
Mafia--through his rise in a mob family run by Paul Cicero (Paul
Sorvino). Though he works for Cicero, Hill's true allegiance is
to his friends Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) and Jimmy Conway (Robert
DeNiro), who also work for Paul. Tommy is a psychotic, but
charming, killer, while Jimmy is a master thief. At first,
Henry, Tommy and Jimmy simply run jobs for Paul. Eventually, the
three begin running drugs, which was strictly against the orders
of Cicero, thereby laying the groundwork for their eventual
downfall. Scorsese's rapid pacing and intoxicating visuals
captures Henry's exhilaration about being in the mob. Just as
importantly, Goodfellas offers a portrait of the Mafia in the
days after The Godfather. Where The Godfather was filled with
rich colors and a stately, neo-operatic story and pacing,
Goodfellas is bright, gaudy and speedy, thereby providing a
chronicle of the Mafia in the rock & roll era. In doing so,
Goodfellas also documents the unraveling of traditional ideas of
loyalty in organized crime during the post-World War II era.
It's a fascinating, immensely entertaining film--albeit a very
profane and violent one--that ranks among Scorsese's very best
films.To see the awards that Goodfellas won, Click Here:Goodfellas Awards
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