Goodfellas (1990)

User Rating:

8.8/10   

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Writers (WGA):

Nicholas Pileggi (book)
Nicholas Pileggi (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

19 September 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.

Plot:

Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.

Plot Keywords:

Gangster | New York | Mafia | Robbery | Organized Crime

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 32 wins & 18 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sun. July 5

4:00 PM

Telemundo

Cast

Robert De Niro	...	James 'Jimmy' Conway
Ray Liotta	...	Henry Hill
Joe Pesci	...	Tommy DeVito
Lorraine Bracco	...	Karen Hill
Paul Sorvino	...	Paul Cicero
Frank Sivero	...	Frankie Carbone
Tony Darrow	...	Sonny Bunz
Mike Starr	...	Frenchy
Frank Vincent	...	Billy Batts
Chuck Low	...	Morris 'Morrie' Kessler
Frank DiLeo	...	Tuddy Cicero
Henny Youngman	...	Himself
Gina Mastrogiacomo	...	Janice Rossi
Catherine Scorsese	...	Tommy's Mother
Charles Scorsese	...	Vinnie

Also Known As:

Good Fellas (USA) (original script title)
GoodFellas (USA) (promotional title (video box title) (poster title))
Wiseguy (USA) (working title)
Buenos muchachos (Argentina) (Mexico) [es]
GoodFellas - Drei Jahrzehnte in der Mafia (Austria) (West Germany) [de]
Les affranchis (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Maffiabröder (Finland: Swedish title) (Sweden) [sv]
Mafiáni (Czech Republic) (DVD title) (Czechoslovakia) [cs]
яКЮБМШЕ ОЮПМХ (Soviet Union: Russian title) [ru]
Chlopcy z ferajny (Poland) [pl]
Dobri momci (Yugoslavia: Serbian title) [sr]
Mafiabrødre (Norway) [no]
Mafiabrør (Norway) (TV title) [no]
Mafiaveljet (Finland) [fi]
Nagymenök (Hungary) [hu]
Os bons Companheiros (Brazil) [pt]
Quei bravi ragazzi (Italy) [it]
Siki dostlar (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Ta kala paidia (Greece) [el]
Tudo Bons Rapazes (Portugal) [pt]
Un dels nostres (Spain: Catalan title) [ca]
Uno de los nuestros (Spain) [es]

Runtime:

146 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Iceland:16 | Brazil:14 | USA:R (certificate #30613) | Israel:16 | India:A | Poland:18 | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | France:-16 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Italy:VM14 | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:18 | Peru:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:M18 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Bern) | UK:18

Filming Locations:

2409 Thirty Second Street, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

When Karen sees Janice Rossi in the prison visitor registry, the name below is listed as "Ballibusteros".

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: (At 34:56) In the scene at the airport where Tommy and Henry take the Sargent key and walk over to the locked storeroom, the whole knob turns when the key is turned. That indicates that the lock was already unlocked. If it had been locked, only the key would've turned.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Henry Hill: The fuck is that?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "L.A. Law: Badfellas (#6.6)" (1991)

Soundtrack:

Baby I Love You

The Definitive Film of the 1990s

"GoodFellas" may be the most important film of the 1990s in the fact that its incredible success led to some of the other great movies of the decade. Films like "The Silence of the Lambs", "The Crying Game", "Pulp Fiction", "The Usual Suspects", "Fargo", and "L.A. Confidential" would have likely never been made as well as they were without the influence of Scorsese's "GoodFellas". The film is an intense study of a Mafia family over a 30-year stretch. Ray Liotta plays the half-Irish, half-Sicilian kid from Brooklyn whose only dream is to be a gangster. Although Liotta's story is at the heart of "GoodFellas", it is the supporting cast that is the film's calling card. Robert DeNiro gives one of his greatest performances, Paul Sorvino is quietly effective, and Lorraine Bracco (in an Oscar-nominated role) does the best work of her career. However, it is Joe Pesci (in his well-deserved Oscar-winning turn) who steals every scene as the one who does the "dirty work". This is probably the definitive film in a decade that produced many film-noir styled classics. 5 stars out of 5.