GoodFellas [Region 2] |  | Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
Category: DVD
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Rating:  673 reviews
Sales Rank: 260895
Format: NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 146 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5024165785843
ASIN: B00004CXX8
Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 1990
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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.
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 Better than the DVD Version! January 25, 2010
Richard J. Blanford (Chicago, IL)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Blu-ray looks and sounds incredible on a HDTV. I also have the DVD version but will no longer watch it when I have this beautiful replication around.
 GoodFellas, Great Movie January 17, 2010
Mountain Man (NC, Foothills)
Joe Pesci, love to hate him. What a cast of greats! Plus Scorsese writing and directing...
Good Movie January 15, 2010
Jennifer's Amazon
My husband bought this movie, and I am not big on gangster flicks but I liked this one because it was based on a true story.
goodfellas January 11, 2010
Robert E. Walsh
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i have loved this film since its release,but I always thought the film slowed to a crawl after the scenes showing the remains of various family members
classic December 21, 2009
William R. Nicholas (Mahwah, NJ USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I never quite understood this whole deal of walking in to a pizza place and seeing paintings of gangsters on the wall--you know, those big oils with the Godfather guys, Scarface, and the guys from Goodfellas. Why would anyone glamorize these theives and killers, hang up pictures of them?
Well, the answer might be in Goodfellas. It sees low leval mob life through Henry Hill from the 1950s to 1980, back when the mafia had sizable power: unions, construction, shipping, boxing, show biz. These guys had their hands in everything, most of all, the piggy bank. Even RFK went after them, and some think it got him killed.
Hill as a teenager saw the money, the cars, the mistresses, the free passes to see Bobby Vinton. Those "guys" across the street at that cabstand had everything a boy with otherwise limited prospects could ever want.
Hill is smart as a whip and soon gets drafted--actually, he enlists. He is the kid with more money than the grown ups. He gets to park cars, hang with the gamblers. By the early 60s, he is doing airport heists.
But soon things get more violent and Hill gets hooked on cocaine. Through the 70s, it gets a lot more dangerous to be a mobster, and the violence becomes more random as the society changes. Eventually, Hill is forced out after being busted for what the mob said they were never going to do--dealing drugs.
What works so well about Goodfellas is the film does not give the crime or the violence an air of tragity or judgement. Scorcessee structues the film so it is like we are hanging out with the crime crew. In bars. In Caidlacs. On jobs. Crazy Tommy shot this guy. What are we going to do with him? All this to a rock soundtrack and jump cut editing, which increases the volocity of the roller coaster
But things do unravel and the glamor unravles with it. Goodfellas is about the price of the violence over the long haul. It sneeks up on us as much as it does Hill, and in the end, we realize what gets paid when we Scorcessee pulls the planks from under. We realize at the end the intelligent Hill has wasted his life, and hurt many on the way down. His friends are dead or have disowed him, and he gets "to live the rest of his life like a snook." in a banal noname subburb .
Just deserts. For Hill, and us for riding along.
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