Goodfellas

Goodfellas or GoodFellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 nonfiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who cowrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill the firstperson narrator in the film and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980.

Henry Hill says, As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster, referring to his idolization of gangsters in his 1950s bluecollar, predominantly ItalianAmerican neighborhood in East New York, Brooklyn. Wanting to be part of something significant, Henry quits school and goes to work for them. He is able to make a living for himself and learns the two most important lessons in life Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut, the advice given to him after being acquitted of criminal charges early in his career.Henry is taken under the wing of local mob leader, Paul Paulie Cicero and his associates James Jimmy the Gent Conway, who loves hijacking trucks and Tommy DeVito, an aggressive armed robber with a temper. In late 1967, they commit the Air France Robbery. Enjoying the perks of their criminal life, they spend most of their nights at the Copacabana carousing with women. Henry meets and later marries Karen, a Jewish woman from the Five Towns. Karen is initially troubled by Henrys criminal activities but is soon seduced by his glamorous lifestyle. ........

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