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Synopsis
Goodfellas is a 1990 American biographical gangster film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.
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Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- The Cost of AmbitionThemeHenry gets the life he wanted since he was thirteen, and the last act prices it: the schnooks he pitied end up holding the one thing he cannot buy back.
- Food as CharacterMotifGarlic sliced thin with a razor in a prison cell, a Sunday sauce, and the one thing Henry misses at the end: food is how the film measures belonging.
Credits
- Producer
- Irwin Winkler
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Screenplay
- Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi
- Director of Photography
- Michael Ballhaus
- Original Music Composer
- Pete Townshend
- Editor
- Thelma Schoonmaker
- Country
- United States
Box office · USD, worldwide
×1.87return on budget
Budget
$25.0M
Revenue
$46.8M
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