Goodfellas

Action, Crime

Robert De Niro	James Conway
Ray Liotta	Henry Hill
Joe Pesci	Tommy DeVito
Lorraine Bracco	Karen Hill
Paul Sorvino
Tony Darrow	Sonny Bunz
Frank DiLeo	Tutti Cicero
Chuck Low	Morris Kessler
Gina Mastrogiacomo	Janice Rossi
Julie Garfield	Mickey Conway
Debi Mazar	Sandy
Kevin Corrigan	Michael Hill
Robbie Vinton	Bobby Vinton
Johnny Williams	Johnny Roastbeef
Michael Imperioli	Spider
Charles Scorsese	Vinnie

Director	Martin Scorsese
Producer	Irwin Winkler; Barbara De Fina
Writer	Martin Scorsese; Nicholas Pileggi

Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas immortalizes the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection Program. The director's kinetic style is perfect for recounting Hill's ruthless rise to power in the 1950s as well as his drugged-out fall in the late 1970s; in fact, no one has ever rendered the mental dislocation of cocaine better than Scorsese. Scorsese uses period music perfectly, not just to summon a particular time but to set a precise mood. GoodFellas is at least as good as The Godfather without being in the least derivative of it. Joe Pesci's psycho improvisation of Mobster Tommy DeVito ignited Pesci as a star, Lorraine Bracco scores the performance of her life as the love of Hill's life, and every supporting role, from Paul Sorvino to Robert De Niro, is a miracle.