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Release Date: 1990

Cast: Mike Starr, Ray Liotta, Frank DiLeo, Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino, Chuck Low, Frank Sivero, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Tony Darrow, Catherine Scorsese, Debi Mazar ...MORE

Cast: Mike Starr, Ray Liotta, Frank DiLeo, Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino, Chuck Low, Frank Sivero, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Tony Darrow, Catherine Scorsese, Debi Mazar, Gina Mastrogiacomo, Michael Imperioli, Charles Scorsese, Lorraine Bracco, Samuel L. Jackson, Henny Youngman, Kevin Corrigan ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Crime Drama, Film adaptation, Gangster, Biographical film

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film follows the rise and fall of Lucchese crime family associates Henry Hill and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980. Scorsese originally intended to direct Goodfellas before The Last Temptation of Christ, but when funds materialized to make Last Temptation, he postponed what was then known as Wise Guy. The title of Pileggi's book had already been used for a TV... MORE

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film follows the rise and fall of Lucchese crime family associates Henry Hill and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980. Scorsese originally intended to direct Goodfellas before The Last Temptation of Christ, but when funds materialized to make Last Temptation, he postponed what was then known as Wise Guy. The title of Pileggi's book had already been used for a TV series and for Brian De Palma's 1986 comedy Wise Guys, so Pileggi and Scorsese changed the name of their film to Goodfellas. To prepare for their roles in the film, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta often spoke with Pileggi, who shared research material left over from writing the book. According to Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals where Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted. The director made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines he liked best, and put them into a revised script the cast worked from during principal LESS