Index
Index
| Movie Name | Grade | Description | Scarface | B+ | Released in 1983, Cuban Tony Montana emigrates to Miami, FL where he gets involved in the lucrative drug trade and does it his way, with balls of steel. Al Pacino as Tony Montana never backs down "I'll bury those cockroaches." |
| Goodfellas | A | Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book Wiseguy , Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas produced brillian performances by Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro. Released in 1990, Henry Hill grows up in an Italian section of Brooklyn and solidifies his entrance to the world of organized crime. "As far back as I could remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." |
| A Bronx Tale | A | Robert DeNiro stars in his directorial debut in1993 as Lorenzo Anello, a bus driver from the Belmont section of the Bronx, who tries to keep his son Calogero from associating with the mob boss who controls the bar next door. When Calogero witnesses Mafia kingpin Sonny (Chaz Palminteri) commit murder, he decides to honor the code of the streets, "A rat is the lowest thing anybody could be in my neighborhood" and the 9 year old did not rat. A friendship takes place for the next 8 year between them. "You can ask anybody from my neighborhood, this is just another bronx tale." |
| Gotti | B | Armand Assante's 1996 portrait of the most visible mov boss in history, John Joseph Gotti. John gotti, was the head of the notorious Gambino Crime Family in the late 1980's and the early 1990's. He had power, he did things his way, "But a Mafia boss don't belong on the cover of time magazine." |
| Carlito's Way | B | Al Pacino stars as the drug kingpin Carlito Brigante in this 1993 move about a convicted drug dealer who comes out of ja9il on a technicality. His lawyer played by Sean Penn (Kleinfeld)is going on the opposite side of the law. "You think you big time, you gonna die big time." |
