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Goodfellas

Martin Scorsese · 1990 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Henry Hill grows up in East New York wanting to be a gangster, and by his teens he is running errands for the crew that works out of the cabstand across the street. Twenty-five years of hijacked trucks, the Lufthansa robbery, a wife who learns what she married into and a cocaine habit that outruns the work. The mob as a job, a diet, and one downhill week.

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