Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
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.
- prison
- florida
- new york city
- based on novel or book
- gangster
- mass murder
- drug trafficking
- 1970s
- irish-american
- gore
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Paul Sorvino — Paul Cicero
- Frank Sivero — Frankie Carbone
- Tony Darrow — Sonny Bunz
- Mike Starr — Frenchy
- Frank Vincent — Billy Batts
- Chuck Low — Morris Kessler
- Frank DiLeo — Tuddy Cicero
- Henny Youngman — Henny Youngman
- Gina Mastrogiacomo — Janice Rossi
- Catherine Scorsese — Tommy's Mother
- Charles Scorsese — Vinnie
- Directed
- Martin Scorsese
- Written
- Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
Production
- Rating
- 8.5 / 10 · 14,713 ratings
- Studio
- Winkler Films, Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
