Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" in his impoverished Brooklyn neighborhood. He begins hanging around the mobsters, running errands and doing odd jobs until he gains the notice of local chieftain Paulie Cicero (Paul Sorvino), who takes him in as a surrogate son. As he reaches his teens, Hill (Ray Liotta) is inducted into the world of petty crime, where he distinguishes himself as a "stand-up guy" by choosing jail time over ratting on his accomplices. From that moment on, he is a part of the family. Along with his psychotic partner Tommy (Joe Pesci), he rises through the ranks to become Paulie's lieutenant; however, he quickly learns that, like his mentor Jimmy (Robert DeNiro), his ethnicity prevents him from ever becoming a "made guy," an actual member of the crime family. Soon he finds himself the target of both the feds and the mobsters, who feel that he has become a threat to their security with his reckless dealings. Goodfellas was rewarded with six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture; Pesci would walk away with Best Supporting Actor for his work. ~ Jeremy Beday, Rovi
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Side #1 -- Goodfellas
1. Prologue and Credits [2:41]
2. The Cab Stand [3:06]
3. No More Letters [1:47]
4. Paulie's Business [1:31]
5. Like a Gangster [1:40]
6. Jimmy the Gent [2:39]
7. Henry's First Pinch [1:33]
8. The Idlewild Connection [1:36]
9. Cast of Characters [3:04]
10. Funny Guy [4:03]
11. The Bamboo lounge [4:53]
12. First Date, First Fight [2:52]
13. The Copacabana [3:03]
14. Airport Heist [1:07]
15. Animal Attraction [1:37]
16. Morrie and Bruce... [4:06]
17. The Wedding [2:58]
18. The Wives [4:29]
19. Togetherness [3:08]
20. Billy Bats [5:02]
21. Mrs. DeVito's House [4:02]
22. Fridays [2:35]
23. Digging Expedition [2:36]
24. Janice [1:20]
25. Spider [4:48]
26. At Gunpoint [2:26]
27. Trip to Tampa [:44]
28. Trip to Jail [:36]
29. Life in Stir [2:19]
30. On Our Own [1:23]
31. Homecoming; Paulie's [3:02]
32. New Business, New Home [2:32]
33. The Lufthansa Heist [2:36]
34. Payoffs [2:15]
35. Covering Stacks' Tracks [2:51]
36. Tommy's Good Fortune [4:06]
37. Morrie's Bad Fortune [:24]
38. Bodies All Over [2:09]
39. The Day Tommy is Made [2:49]
40. Sunday, May 11th 1980 [3:42]
41. Aftermath: The Bad Time [2:40]
42. Henry and Paulie [4:07]
43. Karen and Jimmy [10:33]
44. Smiling Murderers [3:22]
45. Leaving the Life [2:10]
46. A Schnook; Coda [2:31]
47. End Credits [3:01]
Features
Disc One:
Cast and Crew with director Martin Scorsese, Ray Liotta, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Vincent, co-screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, producers Irwin Winkler and Barbara De Fina, cinematographer Michael Balhaus, and editor Thelma Schoonmaker
"Cop and Crook" with Henry Hill and former FBI agent Edward McDonald
Disc Two:
"Getting Made": How a movie classic hits the streets
"Made Men: The Goodfellas Legacy": Filmmakers Joe Carnaham, Jon Favreau, Antoine Fuqua, the Hughes Brothers, and Richard Linklater comment on the movie's influence
"The Workaday Gangster" looks at the less glamorous side of mob life
"Paper Is Cheaper Than Film": Storyboard-to-screen comparisons
Art Director - Maher Ahmad
Associate Producer - Bruce S. Pustin
Book Author - Nicholas Pileggi
Casting - Sylvia Fay
Cinematographer - Michael Ballhaus
Consultant/advisor - John Manca
Costume Designer - Richard Bruno
Costume Designer - Thomas Lee Keller
Costume Designer - Susan O'Donnell
Featured Music - Steve Allen
Featured Music - Jack Bruce
Featured Music - Alan Freed
Featured Music - Donovan Leitch
Featured Music - The Rolling Stones
Featured Music - Jerry Ross
Featured Music - Pete Townshend
Featured Music - Arthur Altman
Featured Music - Paul Anka
Featured Music - Burt Bacharach
Featured Music - Jeff Barry
Featured Music - Sammy Cahn
Featured Music - Hoagy Carmichael
Featured Music - Eric Clapton
Featured Music - Hal David
Featured Music - Harvey Fuqua
Featured Music - Douglas Furber
Featured Music - Norman Gimbel
Featured Music - Ellie Greenwich
Featured Music - Mildred J. Hill
Featured Music - Patty S. Hill
Featured Music - Brian Holland
Featured Music - Gus Kahn
Featured Music - Barry Mann
Featured Music - McKinley Morganfield
Featured Music - Harry Nilsson
Featured Music - Alex North
Featured Music - Mitchell Parish
Featured Music - Phil Spector
Featured Music - William Stevenson
Featured Music - Al Stillman
Featured Music - Charles Trenet
Featured Music - Jimmy Van Heusen
Featured Music - Harry Warren
Featured Music - Cynthia Weil
Featured Music - Paul Evans
Featured Music - Ernie Erdman
Featured Music - Ted Fio Rito
Featured Music - Robert Allen
Featured Music - Jack Lawrence
Featured Music - George "Shadow" Morton
Featured Music - Peter Brown
Featured Music - Jack Rollins
Featured Music - Steve Nelson
Makeup - Carl Fullerton
Makeup - Allen Weisinger
Production Designer - Kristi Zea
Production Designer - Bruce S. Pustin
Special Effects - Connie Brink
Stunts - Michael Russo
Seventeen years after revising the book on gangster movies in his breakthrough Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese returned to the netherworld of Italian-American organized crime with this stunningly ambitious, ferociously entertaining look at one man's rise and fall in a Mafia family. Shot and edited with a propulsive sense of rhythm that Gene Krupa would envy (this may be the fastest 150 minutes in film history), Goodfellas explores the 30-year career of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as a "mechanic" working for mob boss Paulie Cicero (Paul Sorvino). While most films about gangsters attribute their characters' criminal lives to greed or sociopathic behavior, Scorsese makes it clear Henry and his friends Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro) and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) are gangsters because they enjoy it: they like to steal, they enjoy violence, and their "work" allows them to profit from these qualities, which would be a hindrance in nearly any other career. However, while the film offers a point-blank look at New York's criminal underworld from the '50s to the '80s, Scorsese also uses this story as a unusual but clear moral fable. In the first few reels, Henry and his partners follow a strict code of honor and make sure to obey Cicero's wishes: you pay tribute to the boss, you stay away from dealing drugs, and you don't kill anyone unless it's absolutely necessary. By the mid-'70s, these guidelines have been forgotten, and as Henry, Jimmy, and Tommy slip away from Paulie's corrupt but strictly ordered ethical universe, it leads only to death and betrayal. Scorsese has long been fascinated with the actions of men searching for a moral compass in a faithless land, but he's rarely told the story with such kinetic force and audacious skill. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Richard Bruno : Best Costume Design - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1990
Martin Scorsese : Best Director - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1990
Martin Scorsese : Best Picture - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1990
Thelma Schoonmaker : Editing Award - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1990
Nicholas Pileggi : Best Adapted Screenplay - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1991
Martin Scorsese : Best Director - Directors Guild of America, 1990
Martin Scorsese : Best Director - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1990
Joe Pesci : Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1990
Lorraine Bracco : Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1990
Lorraine Bracco : Best Supporting Actress - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1990
Robert de Niro : Best Actor - New York Film Critics Circle, 1990
Joe Pesci : Best Supporting Actor - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1990
Joe Pesci : Best Supporting Actor - National Board of Review, 1990
Michael Ballhaus : Best Cinematography - Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 1989
Nicholas Pileggi : Best Screenplay - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1990
Nicholas Pileggi : Best Adapted Screenplay - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1990
Thelma Schoonmaker : Best Editing - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1990
Martin Scorsese : Best Director - New York Film Critics Circle, 1990
Martin Scorsese : Best Director - Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 1989
Martin Scorsese : Best Adapted Screenplay - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1990
Martin Scorsese : Best Director - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1990
Martin Scorsese : Best Screenplay - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1990
Martin Scorsese : Best Director - National Society of Film Critics, 1989
Irwin Winkler : Best Picture - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1990
Lorraine Bracco : Best Supporting Actress - Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 1989
Joe Pesci : Best Supporting Actor - Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 1989
Martin Scorsese : Silver Lion for Best Director - Venice International Film Festival, 1990
