GoodFellas

GoodFellas     ASIN B000LPS4BG     Medium Count 1     Medium Blu-ray     Release Date 1/12/2007     Group DVD     Link [+]     Aspect Ratio 1.85:1     DVD Region 1     Running Time 145 minutes     Studio Warner Home Video     Audience Rating R     Cast Niro, Robert De / Liotta, Ray / Pesci, Joe / Bracco, Lorraine / Sorvino, Paul     Director Scorsese, Martin     Format Color / Blu-ray / Dolby / Dubbed / NTSC / Subtitled / Widescreen     Language English (Dolby Digital 5.1) / French (Dolby Digital 5.1) / Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)     Date Imported 5/14/2013     List Price $0.00     Rating 4.54.54.54.54.5     Genre Crime Drama     Copy Count 1     Tag Hollywood     IMDb Rating 0      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.