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According to Irwin Winkler, Tom Cruise "was discussed" for the role of Henry Hill. According to prod [...]	D
The phone number for Morrie's wig shop is 555-HAIR (555-4247).	D
Mary Liotta was sick when Liotta got the part in Goodfellas, and he went home to New Jersey every we [...]	D
Val Kilmer was so eager to win the role of Henry Hill that he made an audition tape / short film to [...]	D
While Robert De Niro was not yet committed to the project, Martin Scorsese courted William Petersen [...]	D
Christopher Serrone who played young Henry was given the nickname "kid" on set. When Paulie (Sorvino [...]	D
Al Pacino was offered the role of Jimmy Conway. He turned it down due to fears of typecasting. The s [...]	D
Martin Scorsese said John Wayne's final confrontation in Il fiume rosso (1948) influenced the pistol [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies.	D
The scene where Jimmy puts ketchup on his spaghetti is unusual in that Tommy's mother does not comme [...]	D
Joe Pesci's Oscar acceptance speech is the sixth shortest in the Academy's history, "it's my privile [...]	D
In the scene where Karen believes Jimmy is going to have her whacked, when she jumps in her car and [...]	D
Roger Ebert called this "the best mob movie ever."	D
Hill paid for his restaurant from the proceeds from the Air France robbery. He had been hoping to us [...]	D
Although it is not indicated in the film, in 1960 Henry spent three years in the Army, where he carr [...]	D
Tony Darrow worked in the real-life Bamboo Lounge, where Henry Hill and the people on whom the film' [...]	D
Hill died in 2012 at the age of 69 after a long history of heart disease.	D
An important detail left out of the film was Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke's involvement was the sports [...]	D
Co-stars Ray Liotta and Paul Sorvino pass away just one day shy of two months apart in 2022.	D
Martin Scorsese first got wind of Nicholas Pileggi's book "Wiseguy" when he was handed the galley pr [...]	D
Ranked number two on the American Film Institute's list of the ten greatest films in the genre "Gang [...]	D
According to Debi Mazar, when her character trips after meeting Henry, it was actually Mazar trippin [...]	D
Ray Liotta turned down the part of Harvey Dent in Batman (1989) in order to make this movie.	D
Nicholas Pileggi talked to Henry Hill constantly while writing the script with Martin Scorsese. He s [...]	D
When Paulie confronts Henry after Hill's released from prison, Paul Sorvino improvised the slap to R [...]	D
Robert De Niro was so obsessed with authenticity that during the infamous dinner scene, he asked how [...]	D
Joe Pesci's character kills Frank Vincent's character. In CasinÃ² (1995), Vincent's character kill [...]	D
This was the last film Martin Scorsese shot in the 1.85:1 aspect ratio, until his return to 1.85:1 w [...]	D
This was the first film from the 1990s to be inducted into the National Film Registry.	D
For the famous "Layla" montage, Martin Scorsese played the "piano coda" section of the song during t [...]	D
After the premiere, Henry Hill went around and revealed his true identity. In response, the governme [...]	D
Hill was presented with a bricklayer's union card when he was only 14 years old, with a salary equal [...]	D
At Martin Scorsese's request, associates of the actual people were always on the set of the film, gi [...]	D
Compton's Most Wanted sampled the lines, "For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted.. Murder [...]	D
After Henry is arrested for the first time, Jimmy tells him that he just learned the two most import [...]	D
According to Martin Scorsese, Marlon Brando tried to persuade him to not make the film.	D
Martin Scorsese is a big fan of the Copacabana. He went there on his prom night.	D
Siskel & Ebert named this as their favorite movie of 1990.	D
While filming the scene in which his character is killed by Joe Pesci, Michael Imperioli broke a gla [...]	D
In the scene where Paulie counsels Henry Hill against drug trafficking, the former mentions a man na [...]	D
The film shows Karen Hill visiting Henry Hill in the prison visitor area. In reality, Karen visited [...]	D
The scene in which Tommy kills Spider was mostly improvised. The only line that was said as scripted [...]	D
Bobby Vinton was played by his son Robbie Vinton, who lip-synched to his father's recording.	D
Jimmy "the Gent" Conway died of cancer in 1996; eight years before he would have been eligible for p [...]	D
John Gotti's lawyer, Bruce Cutler, was not a fan of the film, and told Newsday in 1990 that John Got [...]	D
Robert De Niro wanted to use real money for the scene where Jimmy hands out money, because he didn't [...]	D
The reason why the mob was against drug trafficking was because such crimes carried heavy sentences, [...]	D
Joe Pesci, Susan Hayward, Estelle Parsons, Charlize Theron, and Forest Whitaker are the only actors [...]	D
Joe Pesci and Tommy DeVito are both featured as characters in the musical and film Jersey Boys (2014 [...]	D
The long tracking shot in the Copa took seven takes. One take was ruined because Henny Youngman forg [...]	D
Scorsese simplified the Air France robbery by creating an "inside man". In reality, the chief of sec [...]	D
Tuddy Cicero (Paulie's brother) walked with a limp because of a prosthetic leg. He lost the real one [...]	D
The "How am I funny?" scene is based on something that actually happened to Joe Pesci. While working [...]	D
Martin Scorsese reportedly didn't want Ray Liotta to have contact with the real Henry Hill before fi [...]	D
Tobin Bell, now famous for playing the killer Jigsaw in the Saw franchise, has one second of screen [...]	D
According to the book "Wiseguy", Paul Vario was so secretive about the Lufthansa heist that he didn' [...]	D
When it came to the relationship between Henry and Karen, Lorraine Bracco saw no difference between [...]	D
Henry Hill was removed from the witness protection program in the early 1990s. due to a conviction f [...]	D
The film takes place from 1955 to 1980.	D
The casting session was held at Rao's Restaurant in New York City.	D
According to Edward McDonald, in the last courtroom scene, the actor who was going to portray the ju [...]	D
Nicholas Pileggi said that he and Martin Scorsese each wrote their own outline for the screenplay. P [...]	D
Though the Billy Batts welcome-home party and murder scene in the film was depicted as happening on [...]	D
Henry's last day as a wiseguy was the hardest part of the film for Martin Scorsese to shoot. He want [...]	D
The painting that Joe Pesci's character's mother brings out was actually painted by "Wiseguy" author [...]	D
This was the first Martin Scorsese film for which Saul Bass designed the titles.	D
Ray Liotta came into view for the main lead after Martin Scorsese saw him in Qualcosa di travolgente [...]	D
After the real Henry Hill's death on June 12, 2012, Ray Liotta claimed that he only had a few meetin [...]	D
According to Joe Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals, where Martin Scorsese l [...]	D
The French title translates as "The Henchmen". The Italian title translates as "Those Good Guys". Th [...]	D
The cast didn't meet Henry Hill until a few weeks before the film premiered. Ray Liotta met him in a [...]	D
The M.P.A.A. ordered ten frames of blood removed from the film before granting it an R rating.	D
According to Nicholas Pileggi, some mobsters were hired as extras to lend authenticity to scenes. Th [...]	D
Real life ex-Mafia capo Michael Franzese said he was watching Goodfellas with his wife shortly after [...]	D
During one take while filming the scene in which Karen points a gun in Henry's face, Ray Liotta thre [...]	D
Hill's ten-year prison term was for extortion in the beating of a man to collect a large gambling de [...]	D
The later life of Henry Hill, after he enters the Witness Protection Program, was also adapted, more [...]	D
Martin Scorsese saw this as the third film in an unplanned trilogy of films that examined the lives [...]	D
Joseph Bono: Mikey Franzese, who appears briefly as the camera pans through the Bamboo Lounge near t [...]	D
Lorraine Bracco's daughter with Harvey Keitel, Stella, plays Henry's daughter who was too shy to giv [...]	D
Joe Pesci (Tommy DeVito) and Frank Vincent (Billy Batts) both appeared in Soldi facili (1983); Joe P [...]	D
John Malkovich was considered for Jimmy Conway, but turned it down. Three years later, he took the r [...]	D
Other than Henry Hill and his family, Prosecutor Ed McDonald, and some of the deceased, most of the [...]	D
Originally, Martin Scorsese planned to make this before L'ultima tentazione di Cristo (1988). When f [...]	D
Joseph D'Onofrio plays the young version of Tommy DeVito and not Joe Pesci, while Robert De Niro pla [...]	D
In the book "Wiseguy", Henry Hill cites a few reasons why Tommy was killed. The main reason, of cour [...]	D
The painting that Tommy's mother shows to Tommy, Jimmy, and Henry, is based on a picture from the No [...]	D
As Goodfellas makes clear, many of the mobsters involved with the $6 million 1978 Lufthansa heist-at [...]	D
Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin and John Travolta were considered for the role of [...]	D
According to US Attorney Edward MacDonald, who plays himself in the film, one important real life de [...]	D
In addition to several Rolling Stones songs, the movie features "Memo From Turner," Mick Jagger's fi [...]	D
DeNiro and Pesci are eight and eleven inches shorter then the real Burke and DiSimone are.	D
Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel both said Goodfellas was the best movie of 1990.	D
According to Lorraine Bracco, Martin Scorsese told her to think of Karen as the "movie star" of the [...]	D
During one of the final scenes, Henry Hill opens his front door and picks up a newspaper. Close insp [...]	D
Based on the novel Wiseguys the film needed a different title to avoid confusion with the late 80's [...]	D
Paul Sorvino had no problem finding his character's voice and walk, but finding "that kernel of cold [...]	D
The burning of the cars refers to the destruction of a rival taxi business that had been just around [...]	D
Martin Scorsese wanted to use Frank Sinatra's version of "My Way" at the end, but Sinatra would not [...]	D
Christopher Serrone, who played young Henry, wore blue contact lenses to match Ray Liotta's blue eye [...]	D
While Jimmy is openly hostile to Morrie and eventually murders him, Chuck Low, the actor playing Mor [...]	D
Lorraine Bracco found the shoot emotionally difficult because it was such a male-dominated cast. She [...]	D
When the camera cranes up to reveal the dead bodies in the pink Cadillac, the piano exit of Derek & [...]	D
The film has 43 songs, the equivalent of about four albums. According to music editor Christopher Br [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
In 2000, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for the National Film Registry, for [...]	D
Trailer narrated by Hal Douglas.	D
Ray Liotta had said on a documentary special that his first person narration for the film was often [...]	D
Glenn Taranto: the young "extra" carrying a J&B box off the truck and into the Bamboo Lounge.	D
The scene where Liotta negotiates to enter the witness protection programme u.s. attorney Edward McD [...]	D
In The Real Goodfella (2006), which aired in the UK, Henry Hill claimed that Robert De Niro would ph [...]	D
Voted number one in Total Film's 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time list (November 2005).	D
Lorraine Bracco's two real-life daughters played Judy Hill at different ages. Margaux Guerard played [...]	D
Chuck Low is also Robert De Niro's real estate agent. He has appeared in other De Niro films, includ [...]	D
Martin Scorsese originally offered Joe Pesci the role of Paulie, since Pesci was decades too old for [...]	D
Henry Hill explained to a fan on the Howard Stern Show in March 2003 that neither he nor Jimmy Burke [...]	D
Robert De Niro poured over Nicholas Pileggi's unused research to prepare for his role.	D
Jimmy Conway was based on gangster Jimmy Burke, who was born James Conway.	D
When Henry and Karen Hill are negotiating to enter the Witness Protection Program, former U.S. Attor [...]	D
Martin Scorsese liked Lorraine Bracco, largely due to how well she related to Karen. She's not Jewis [...]	D
To research her role, Lorraine Bracco tried to get close to a mob wife. She was unable to because th [...]	D
The movie "My Blue Heaven", a comedy about a former member of the New York mob that's adjusting to l [...]	D
It is unmentioned in the movie but William DeVino (the real-life Billy Batts) was a member of the Ga [...]	D
According to Ray Liotta on the Special Edition DVD, Sean Penn was also considered for Henry Hill.	D
For the scene where Sonny Bunz complains to Paulie, Martin Scorsese secretly told Tony Darrow to imp [...]	D
After Joe Pesci's mother saw the film, she told him the movie was good, then asked him if he had to [...]	D
The Paul Cicero character was based on Paul Vario. As for the choice of the name Cicero, this may be [...]	D
Morrie briefly mentions the Boston College basketball point-shaving scheme, in which players would c [...]	D
Samuel L. Jackson's (Parnell "Stacks" Edwards) first character on-screen death.	D
Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Frank Vincent and Tony Sirico (who played Tony Stacks) would reunite sev [...]	D
In both this film and "Casino", Joe Pesci's character is involved in incidental conversation (backgr [...]	D
According to Ray Liotta, Martin Scorsese was so involved in every detail of the cast's wardrobe that [...]	D
A few scenes include taxis with a real phone number on the side. They're from Four Ones, a real cab [...]	D
While driving to and from the set, Ray Liotta listened to cassettes of interviews that Nicholas Pile [...]	D
The character of Frankie Carbone, like some mobsters depicted in the movie, was a fictional composit [...]	D
Martin Scorsese's mother, Catherine, played Tommy's mother. She and the cast ad-libbed the dinner sc [...]	D
Lorraine Bracco demanded that real jewelry be used for Karen's dresser. The production designer rent [...]	D
Michael Ballhaus said that the scene when Henry walks across the street to pistol-whip Karen's neigh [...]	D
Mike Starr played the same role in Il furto del secolo (1991), a Jimmy Burke telling of the Lufthans [...]	D
Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi collaborated on the screenplay. Over the course of 12 drafts, t [...]	D
The movie's line "How am I funny?" was voted as the #87 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premier [...]	D
Jimmy Conway actually went by the name "Jimmy Burke". In the book "Wiseguy", the only known piece of [...]	D
The Lufthansa heist remained an unsolved mystery until 2014. Most of the members of the crew that we [...]	D
Joe Pesci was in his forties at the time of filming. Tommy DeSimone, Pesci's character's inspiration [...]	D
In October 2014, Frank Sivero filed a $250 million lawsuit against I Simpson (1989) for using his lo [...]	D
The name "Tommy DeVito" is a nod to Tommy DeVito, the lead guitarist of The Four Seasons, with whom [...]	D
The studio was initially very nervous about the film, due to its extreme violence and language. The [...]	D
The film's name was changed from "Wiseguy" to avoid confusion with both the television series Oltre [...]	D
"Fuck" and its derivatives are used 321 times, an average of 2.04 per minute. Joe Pesci says about h [...]	D
The epilogue states that Paul Cicero died pf a respiratory illness in a federal prison in Fort Worth [...]	D
Martin Scorsese's father appeared in the film. He is one of the two men who take Tommy DeVito to be [...]	D
Although Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi collaborated on the screenplay (and received Oscar nom [...]	D
The house where Tommy was killed is located at 80th Street and Shore Road, in the Bay Ridge area of [...]	D
The long tracking shot through the Copacabana nightclub came about because the filmmakers couldn't g [...]	D
Robert De Niro was offered either the role of Jimmy "The Gent" Conway, or Tommy DeVito. He chose the [...]	D
Henry states that Tommy was shot in the face so that his mother could not give him an open-casket fu [...]	D
Morris Kessler's real-life counterpart was Martin Krugman. Krugman was a hair dresser/wig salesman a [...]	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
In 2022 dollars, the money stolen in the Air France robbery comes to approximately $3.8 million. The [...]	D
According to Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Tina Sinatra put a fake severed horse head in his traile [...]	D
Ray Liotta was 35 during filming. Henry Hill was 21 when he started dating Karen in the film.	D
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #92 Greatest USA Movie of All Time.	D
The film's soundtrack did not include many of the songs featured in the film, mostly the tracks play [...]	D
One of the pistols Henry brings to Jimmy to check out for a silencer is the exact same one DeNiro us [...]	D
The film, told from Henry Hill's perspective, portrays him as a major player in the world of organiz [...]	D
In January 2014, several New York City organized crime figures were arrested as part of a federal in [...]	D
Ray Liotta has said Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci "were the glitter and I was the glue."	D
At first, producer Irwin Winkler disagreed when Martin Scorsese cast Ray Liotta as Henry Hill. One n [...]	D
Although they portrayed antagonists in this movie, Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent were real-life friend [...]	D
Henry Hill doesn't kill a single person in the movie. That might not be accurate in real life, since [...]	D
Ray Liotta's mother died of cancer during filming. Liotta says that he used his anger over losing hi [...]	D
Every one of Robert De Niro's outfits had a watch and a pinkie ring to go with it.	D
While directing his mother Catherine Scorsese, Martin didn't tell her that her character's son had j [...]	D
When Frank Vincent went to meet Martin Scorsese about being cast in the film, Scorsese asked Vincent [...]	D
According to Henry Hill, whose life was the basis for the book and film, Joe Pesci's portrayal of To [...]	D
Late in his life, Henry Hill launched GoodfellaHenry.com, a website devoted to the film and life in [...]	D
The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company's gangster film short The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) [...]	D
When Karen sees Janice Rossi in the prison visitor registry, the name below is listed as "Ballibuste [...]	D
According to Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese knew exactly how he wanted the movie to look from the [...]	D
Alec Baldwin auditioned for the role of Henry Hill.	D
The real Tony Lip, who was the Maitre d' of Copacobana, is featured during one of the early scenes i [...]	D
The film leaves out a crime that eventually became a national sports story: Boston College's 1978-79 [...]	D
The film is included in Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.	D
Ray Liotta joked that Warner Brothers would have rather cast Eddie Murphy than him, because of how l [...]	D
Ray Liotta was intimidated by Robert De Niro. He really wanted De Niro to like him. De Niro put Liot [...]	D
Director of photography Michael Ballhaus said that he decided to shoot the film was because it was d [...]	D
The helicopter that follows Henry around all day before getting arrested was an AÃ©rospatiale AS35 [...]	D
Louis Eppolito (who plays "Fat Eddie") wrote "Mafia Cop", a true story about growing up in a mafia f [...]	D
Paul Sorvino wanted to drop out of the role of Paul "Paulie" Cicero three days before filming began, [...]	D
Henry Hill's testimony against some of the most powerful Lucchese crime family associates led to ove [...]	D
The first scene filmed was the Morrie's Wigs commercial. Martin Scorsese was inspired by a low-budge [...]	D
When Henry Hill closes the door to his house at the end, the sound resembles the sound of a prison c [...]	D
In the movie, Henry and Tommy hung around a lot. In the book though, Tommy and Henry knew each other [...]	D
Henry states that he and Jimmy could never be "made", because they weren't of full Italian descent. [...]	D
When Henry and Karen first go on the double date with Tommy, as the scene progresses Tommy's date's [...]	D
The line "As far back as I could remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." was voted as number [...]	D
Martin Scorsese was inspired by Jules e Jim (1962), particularly the use of voice-over and freeze-fr [...]	D
In the DVD commentary, Henry Hill said that he still had nightmares about when he, Tommy, and Jimmy [...]	D
Jimmy Burke, on whom Jimmy Conway was based, would've been eligible for parole in 2004. He died of l [...]	D
Ellen Barkin was considered for the role of Karen Hill.	D
Voted number six on Empire magazine's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time (September 2008).	D
In the movie, mob chief Paulie had a brother named Tuddy. In real life, Paulie had one older brother [...]	D
For the last two weeks of filming - the scenes of young Henry in the 1950s - Barry Sonnenfeld took o [...]	D
In a interview for Reddit, Kevin Corrigan revealed how he was cast. Corrigan first learned about the [...]	D
Henry Hill was paid roughly $550,000 for the film. Hill considered it chump change compared to the $ [...]	D
As he enters the Witness Protection program, Henry requests not to be sent to a cold place. In the f [...]	D
Goodfellas shares 27 actors with HBO's television hit The Sopranos.	D
The dinner scene with Tommy's mother was almost completely improvised, including Tommy asking his mo [...]	D

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