Rent Goodfellas (1990)
4.3 of 5 from 499 ratings
2h 19min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Based on the true life best seller 'Wiseguy' by Nicolas Pileggi and backed by a dynamic pop/rock oldies soundtrack, critics and filmgoers alike declared 'GoodFellas' great. It was named the best film of the '90s by the New York, Los Angeles and National Society of film critics, and it earned 6 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.
- Actors:
- Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero, Tony Darrow, Mike Starr, Frank Vincent, Chuck Low, Frank DiLeo, Henny Youngman, Gina Mastrogiacomo, Catherine Scorsese, Charles Scorsese, Suzanne Shepherd, Debi Mazar, Margo Winkler, Welker White, Jerry Vale
- Directors:
- Martin Scorsese
- Producers:
- Irwin Winkler
- Writers:
- Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
- Others:
- Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Ballhaus, Richard Bruno
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Drama
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- Awards:
1991 BAFTA Best Adapted Screen Play
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 11/06/2007
- Run Time:
- 145 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 2.0, German Dolby Digital 2.0, Italian Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- Danish, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Cast and Crew Commentary
- "Cop and Crook" Commentary
- 3 Documentaries: "Getting Made", "Made Men: The GoodFellas Legacy", "The Workaday Gangster"
- "Paper is Cheaper than Film" Storyboard-to-Screen comparison
- Theatrical Trailer
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 12/12/2016
- Run Time:
- 145 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, Czech Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, French, French Dolby Digital 2.0, German Dolby Digital 2.0, Hungarian Dolby Digital 2.0, Italian Dolby Digital 2.0, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, Polish Dolby Digital 2.0, Russian Dolby Digital 2.0, Thai Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- Arabic, Brazilian, Cantonese, Castillian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German Hard of Hearing, Hebrew, Italian Hard of Hearing, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Cast and Crew Commentary
- "Cop and Crook" Commentary
- 3 Documentaries: "Getting Made", "Made Men: The GoodFellas Legacy", "The Workaday Gangster"
- "Paper is Cheaper than Film" Storyboard-to-Screen Comparison
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Reviews (4) of Goodfellas
Awful - Goodfellas review by ll
Just gratutitous violence. What plot there was was predictable- hoodlum is insulted so another body to bury. Music nothing to write home about. Beats me why this received so many awards
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After watching the Sopranos... - Goodfellas review by MT
I’m supposed to write a review of Goodfellas? How about “Scorsese is a genius and this has great actors and music”? But you know that. After watching dozens of hours of the Sopranos what struck me when rewatching this was how concentrated the action is: that’s what you get when a story arc has to fit into two hours, but I kept expecting characters to sit around and do thinking. Instead we have the voiceover driving us along at a frantic pace. Just remember to keep stirring the sauce.
1 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Influential And Powerful Crime Drama - Goodfellas review by GI
Arguably Martin Scorsese's best film and a landmark one setting a high standard as the 1990s began and completely reimagining the gangster film. Even the Godfather trilogy had an air of romanticism in it's depiction of the mafia possibly owing to the historical vision of the 40s and 50s but Goodfellas, mostly set in the 60s and 70s sets a scene of extreme violence with uncouth characters who covet only the power to do exactly what they want without constraint. They have no style, in fact they are simply materialistic with no idea that they indulge themselves with ugliness. This stretches to their marital relationships and homes and even to the loyalty of friendship they hold so dear and which in this film is utterly betrayed and exposed as false. Based on true events this is the story of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta). It's a fairly straight forward rise and fall story that follows Henry from a young man who is seduced by the life of crime when he joins the 'family' of Paulie (Paul Sorvino in a cold, frightening performance). His rise to loyal gangster with the help of two psychopaths, Jimmy (Robert De Niro) and Tommy (Joe Pesci in a defining and memorable role) and his marriage to Karen (Lorraine Bracco), an innocent who is also seduced by the gangster life but who has to accept the loss of her morals as a consequence. It's ultimately all about greed which overcomes all moral boundaries in these characters who achieve it through bloody murder. The violence is shocking, it's possibly Scorsese's most violent film and it gives the film an emotional power. Scores uses his camera in some eloquent ways to tell his story including a now famous tracking shot and bringing the background closer to simulate the closing in of the world against these criminals. There are no heroes here and you cannot root for anyone, not least Henry, who eventually succumbs to the ultimate humiliation to save his own skin. Scorsese has Henry break the fourth wall to talk direct to the viewer as he commits the final betrayal. This is a key film, a powerful one and if you've never seen this it will make you gasp on occasion but it's one of the best of American crime films of the past thirty years.
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