Goodfellas (1990)

• Year: 1990
• Released: 21 Sep 1990
• Country: United States
• Adwords: Won 1 Oscar. 44 wins & 38 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Goodfellas
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/goodfellas
• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 2160p
• Language: English, Italian
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
• Runtime: 145 min
• Writer: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
• Keywords: based on novel or book, murder, biography, based on true story, new york city,

	8.7/10
	90/100
	96% – Critics
	97% – Audience

Goodfellas Storyline

This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960’s and 70’s New York. Henry Hill is a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Tommy DeVito is a purebred gangster, who turns out to be Henry’s best friend. Jimmy Conway puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.

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Brilliant

Great movie still holds up well today. Cinematography top notch, acting amazing from whole cast, directing on point, casting fantastic. Couldn’t ask for anything better.

A great director at the peak of his talents

It is hard to describe the brilliance that is Goodfellas. As good as Raging Bull and Taxi Driver are, I think Goodfellas is Martin Scorsese’s best film and is a textbook example of a great director at the peak of his talents. The film crackles with raw energy and enthusiasm, the film is superbly directed and the final sequence is nothing short of stunning. The script is also excellent with memorable quotes, the story is never less than compelling and the pop and rock soundtrack is winning. The cinematography and detail is immaculate, and the ensemble cast is one of film’s finest. Joe Pesci won an Oscar for his performance, and as good as he was, he is perfectly matched by Robert DeNiro and Ray Liotta. All in all, it is a brilliant film and an instant classic no matter what time, day, week or year. 10/10 Bethany Cox

The Criminal Mindset

The gangster film has been redefined so many times in cinema history it will be interesting to see how it is redefined once again. Goodfellas is a milestone film in that regard because just as Public Enemy and Little Caesar defined it in the Thirties, The Godfather trilogy in the seventies and eighties, Goodfellas set the standard that all other films including Martin Scorsese similar Casino try to meet. The interesting thing is that Martin Scorsese is young enough to redefine it again with another work.

With Ray Liotta narrating his own life in crime in a flashback as real life criminal Henry Hill, Martin Scorsese offers us one fascinating glimpse of the criminal life in the Eisenhower to Reagan era. Henry Hill even as a child got sucked into the criminal life as a kid, as he said all he ever wanted to be was a gangster. Tutored by both Robert DeNiro and Paul Sorvino, Liotta takes part in one of the biggest heists of all time of Lufthansa Airlines at JFK Airport during the seventies. Goodfellas is the story of the events from Henry Hill’s perspective leading up to the heist and the aftermath.

For myself I’ve never seen the gangster mentality better expressed on screen except maybe by Sean Connery in Family Business. Liotta and Connery operate from the same mindset. If you work hard and hope it pays off in success, you’re a dope. If you want something, just take it. When you come right down to it, that’s how criminals think, it’s the rest of us who are fools.

Goodfellas was nominated for several Oscars, but came away with only one winner, Joe Pesci in the role of crazy Tommy DeVito. He’s another criminal type, one who’s driven by a terrible inferiority complex due to his short stature and does terrible things even to his own peers. And those peers don’t forget as you see what happens to Pesci in Goodfellas. This turned out to be a career role for Pesci. He’s a multi-talented man who’s got an incredible range and can play everything from the Home Alone comedies to stone killers like here in Goodfellas or in Casino.

There’s usually a contest in which Scorsese fans argue whether Casino or Goodfellas is better. I happen to like Casino, but without the success of Goodfellas, Casino would not have been made.

For a fascinating look at the criminal mindset, Goodfellas is an absolute must.