BUENOS MUCHACHOS.

Goodfellas (1990)


Director: MARTIN SCORSESE.
Screenplay: Nicholas Pileggi (book); Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese (screenplay)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino




WARNER BROTHERS / EVERETT COLLECTION




he director wanted his bloody, dirty-talking study of small-time Mafiosos to have the spirit of "a rollicking road picture," and he achieved this paradoxical goal brilliantly. The picture only seems amoral. Behind its grinning mask it is an acute parody of "family values" and of moral incomprehension. And Joe Pesci is awesome as the most psychopathic of hoods.—R.S.


From the TIME Archive:
GoodFellas offers the fastest, sharpest 2 1/2-hr. ride in recent film history