1990 · crime · drama
Goodfellas
Directed by Martin Scorsese2h 25m1990
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Our read: Goodfellas (1990) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Goodfellas counts for 2 challenges
Sombre, breathless, extreme crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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