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Ray Liotta
Robert De Niro
Joe Pesci
Lorraine Bracco
Frank Sivero

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A drug dealing gangster works his way up the chain of command while building close relationships with the leader. Based off a true story.

09/13/2012 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

"Goodfellas" by Yojimbo

Career criminal Henry Hill reminisces upon his life of crime in this true life story based on an actual FBI case. Goodfellas is the perfect film. It has the perfect blend of drama, gritty violence and humour as we see the dark side of the American dream played out over 25 years of a wise guy's life. The people depicted here do not play by society's rules and have their own set of laws and conventions revolving around the pure pursuit of profit in this, the logical conclusion of capitalism. The livelihoods and lives of others are commodities to be used up and tossed away and life is cheap to these mobsters whose stated obsession with loyalty and family is also soon forgotten for the "big score", leading to total anarchy. The combination of DeNiro, Liotta and Pesci makes for a brilliant tri...

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01/25/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Goodfellas review

This is a realistic mob flick filled with various elements of film about the rise and descend of the Lucchese crime family, connections of Henry Hill and his friends. Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) narrates that local mob capo, Paul "Paulie" Cicero (Paul Sorvino) and his associates, Jimmy "The Gent" Conway (Robert De Niro) and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) looks after him. Henry marry a Jewish girl named Karen (Lorraine Bracco). Tommy and Jimmy beat-up beats Billy Batts (Frank Vincent), a mobster with the Gambino crime family for insulting him a few years back.

Astounding screenplay with a few quotes from the film: Henry – “Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line.” “You know, we always called each other goodfellas. Like you said to, uh, somebody, "You're gonna like this guy. H...

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05/26/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Scorsese's Masterpiece in at #29.

Another classic gangster movie,Goodfellas has a good ensemble cast,a good storyline to it and great acting and sort of sets the mold for future gangster movies such as Heat,The Departed and American Gangster.Directed brilliantly by Martin Scorsese who should have rightfully won Best Director for this movie,the movie tells the story of Henry Hill(Ray Liotta) who joins the mob at a young age and meets James"Jimmy" Conway(movie legend Robert De Niro) and Tommy DeVito(Joe Pesci in his Oscar winning role) and is taken under the wing of Paul"Paulie" Cicero(Paul Sorvino) who is a local mob boss.Also nominated for the Best Picture Oscar as well as Best Supporting Actress Oscar-Lorraine Bracco and Best Adapted Screenplay which Goodfellas should have rightfully won all of those Oscars but won Best ...

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