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Goodfellas

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Goodfellas (19-Sep-1990)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writers: Nicholas Pileggi; Martin Scorsese

Based on a book: Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi (biography)

Keywords: Crime, Biography, True Crime, Organized Crime, New York, Brooklyn, Prison, Drug Smuggling, Cocaine, Arson, Explosions

Story based on the life of mobster Henry Hill, and his involvement with the Lucchese mafia family from a very early age. Half-Irish, Hill could never become a "made man", but he was a man who "knew literally, where the bodies were buried." Joe Pesci won Best Supporting Actor Oscar portraying the mentally unstable Tommy DeVito; the film received five other nominations including Best Picture and Best Director.

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Tobin Bell	Actor	7-Aug-1942		Saw
Lorraine Bracco	Actor	2-Oct-1954		Goodfellas, The Sopranos
Kevin Corrigan	Actor	27-Mar-1969		Eddie Finnerty on Grounded for Life
Robert De Niro	Actor	17-Aug-1943		The Godfather: Part II
Bo Dietl	Business	c. 1950		Ex-NYPD homicide detective
Illeana Douglas	Actor	25-Jul-1965		Grace of My Heart
Vincent Gallo	Actor	11-Apr-1961		Buffalo '66
Michael Imperioli	Actor	26-Mar-1966		Christopher on The Sopranos
Samuel L. Jackson	Actor	21-Dec-1948		Pulp Fiction
Ray Liotta	Actor	18-Dec-1954		Goodfellas
Debi Mazar	Actor	15-Aug-1964		Meet Wally Sparks
Peter Onorati	Actor	13-May-1954		Charlie Howell on Civil Wars
Vincent Pastore	Actor	14-Jul-1946		Big Pussy on The Sopranos
Joe Pesci	Actor	9-Feb-1943		Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas
Tony Sirico	Actor	29-Jul-1942		Paulie Walnuts
Paul Sorvino	Actor	13-Apr-1939		Det. Cerreta on Law & Order
Mike Starr	Actor	29-Jul-1950		Goodfellas
Berlinda Tolbert	Actor	4-Nov-1949		Jenny Willis Jefferson on The Jeffersons
Jerry Vale	Singer	8-Jul-1932	18-May-2014	Romantic ballad singer
Frank Vincent	Actor	15-Apr-1937	13-Sep-2017	Raging Bull
Henny Youngman	Comic	16-Mar-1906	24-Feb-1998	Take my wife, please

REVIEWS

Review by Vamsee (posted on 21-Feb-2005)

Considered as one of Martin Scorsese's best movies ever, Goodfellas ranks as the best mob movie, if only after The Godfather. This is a typical Scorsese sytle movie with background voices, flashbacks, radical camera use and lots of foul-language and violence.

Henry Hill is Irish-Sicilian and grows up in a rough neighbourhood. He always dreamt of being a gangster, which according to him, is better than being the President of United States. He works for Paulie, a local boss. Henry meets Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro), a kidnapper, hijacker and a murderer, among other things. Jimmy teams up Henry with Tommy (Joe Pesci), a big-mouthed Italian. Together, they hijack cargo trucks and have a comfortable life.

The Goodfellas (Henry, Tommy and Jimmy) plan and pull-off a robbery. But bodies are being discovered every where as Tommy and Jimmy "whack" everyone involved. Tommy is killed as revenge for the death of a "made" guy (mafioso). Henry's options are getting narrower. Will he remain a Goodfella? The life of luxary he dreamed of as a child now pushes him into an abyss from which there seems to be no escape.

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