- Description
Brooklyn 1955 - Schoolboy Henry Hill dreams of becoming a gangster. He does odd jobs for local mobsters, and when the police arrest him for cigarette smuggling, he refuses to testify, winning the favor of his godfather, Paul Cicero, who accepts him into his service...
1963 - Henry, along with Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito, pulls off a successful robbery at the airport. Jimmy becomes the young man's friend and mentor. Henry marries Karen, a Jewish high school girl, and outwardly lives a quiet and settled life. After the wedding, his wife discovers the true source of Henry's income and accepts it as an irrefutable fact...
1970 - Henry leaves his wife after a jealous scene Karen inflicts on his mistress. However, at Cicero's insistence, he continues to maintain the appearance of a functioning marriage. Henry and Jimmy are sentenced to ten years for brutally beating a debtor. In prison, Henry becomes involved in drug distribution because he fears his family will be left destitute. When he is paroled after four years, he promises Cicero that he will leave the drugs behind...
TECHNICAL DATA
Script: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus
Production: Irwin Winkler
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- Actors and film crew
- Cop and Robber
