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GoodFellas (Blu-ray) (Widescreen)

Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Director: Martin Scorsese

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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, All Movie Guide

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Genre: Crime & Espionage
Category: Crime Drama, Gangster Film
Theme: Faltering Friendships, Mafia Life, Rise and Fall Stories, Witness Protection
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Rating: R (Restricted)Rating Opens in New Window - Adult Humor, Adult Situations, Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Substance Abuse
Studio: Warner Home Video
Lead Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
Supporting Actors: Frank Aquilino, Mikey Black, Michaelangelo Graziano, Melissa Prophet, Marie Michaels, Margaux Guerard, Manny Alfaro, Luke Walter, Larry Silvestri, Julie Garfield, Gayle Lewis, Gaetano Lisi, Frank Pellegrino, Nadine Kay, Peter Hock, Peter Onorati, Richard Dioguardi, Samuel L. Jackson, Vincent Pastore, Alyson Jones
Director: Martin Scorsese

Picture Format: Widescreen
Run Time: 2 hr 25 min
Language: English, French, Spanish
Subtitle Language: English, French, Spanish
Format: Blu-ray

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DPCI: 058-32-0122
ASIN: B002FO6PH6
Catalog #: 11298946

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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, All Movie Guide