Goodfellas

It seems as if Martin Scorsese dug up up every Italian American he could find for this one and with amazing results. As so much has been written about this Scorsese masterwork starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta I won't waste your time by repeating it. What I will add though is how odd it is to see Lorraine Bracco and Michael Imperioli in this one. Odd as in how both would later become leads in THE SOPRANOS. Imperioli is great as Spider the waiter who ends up getting his foot blown off and then later just straight blown away. In this, only his third film, one would never imagine the great career to follow. Now that I think about it, almost everybody in this film, save the major leads, wound up in THE SOPRANOS at one time or another. Note also that Joe Pesci took an Academy Award for best supporting actor from this baby!