Robert DeNiro gives one of his greatest performances, Paul Sorvino is quietly effective, and Lorraine Bracco (in an Oscar-nominated role) does the best work of her career.
Although Liotta's story is at the heart of "GoodFellas", it is the supporting cast that is the film's calling card. Ray Liotta plays the half-Irish, half-Sicilian kid from Brooklyn whose only dream is to be a gangster. The film is an intense study of a Mafia family over a 30-year stretch. Confidential" would have likely never been made as well as they were without the influence of Scorsese's "GoodFellas". Films like "The Silence of the Lambs", "The Crying Game", "Pulp Fiction", "The Usual Suspects", "Fargo", and "L.A. Fans of the film might also be interested in this map assembled by Eater that shows many of the restaurants used in the filming of Goodfellas."GoodFellas" may be the most important film of the 1990s in the fact that its incredible success led to some of the other great movies of the decade. I made a Google map of locations mentioned in Wiseguy.
Though much of the action takes place in Brooklyn and Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island make some appearances as well (for example, Jimmy Burke did time as a teenager at Mount Loretto Reformatory on the South Shore of Staten Island-the same Mount Loretto that Francis Ford Coppola used for exterior shots from the baptism scene at the end of The Godfather). And as a student of New York City history, I immediately downloaded Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family, the Nicholas Pileggi book on which Martin Scorsese based his 1990 film.Ī former crime reporter with the Associated Press and New York magazine (and husband of the late Nora Ephron), Pileggi made it easy for me to pinpoint many of the book’s locations, from the taxi stand in East New York, Brooklyn, where, at the age of 12, Henry Hill began his work with Paul Vario, to Hill’s home in Rockville Centre, where he was arrested in 1980. Though I had seen Goodfellas as a teenager, it was only this month that I watched the movie as a New Yorker.
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