Donnie Brasco (Extended Cut)
by Mike Newell
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Actor: Al Pacino, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Johnny Depp, Michael MadsenDirector: Mike Newell
Brand: Sony
Producer: Alan Greenspan
Producer: Barry Levinson
Producer: Gail Mutrux
Producer: Gary Khammer
Writer: Joseph D. Pistone
Writer: Paul Attanasio
Writer: Richard Woodley
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Japanese (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 147 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Donnie Brasco (Extended Cut)
Movie Review: Donnie Brasco (Extended Cut)
Summary: 5 Stars
In the 1970s, FBI Agent Joe Pistone goes undercover and infiltrates the mob in New York City. Using the name Donnie Brasco, he befriends a 'made' mafioso Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero. As time goes by, Pistone begins to identify and care for his mafia friends, especially Lefty. Pistone is married and has children but he is away for weeks or months at a time eventually leading to his wife asking for a divorce. When he stops reporting to the FBI daily as is required, his superiors decide the time has come to pull the plug on the operation. "Donnie Brasco" is an extraordinary movie in many ways. The performances are note-perfect. But there's so much more to it than that. The late 70s period details are impeccably captured, the dialogue is extraordinarily raw and realistic and the moral dilemma facing Depp is achingly, agonisingly conveyed. It's a powerful movie, completely involving, that by the end you find yourself wrapped up in Pistone's predicament, asking what decisions you would make in the same circumstances. An absorbing, well made gangster movie.
Summary of Donnie Brasco (Extended Cut)
DONNIE BRASCO - DVD MovieBased on a memoir by former undercover cop Joe Pistone (whose daring and unprecedented infiltration of the New York Mob scene earned him a place in the federal witness protection program), Donnie Brasco is like a de- romanticized, de-mythologized version of The Godfather. It offers an uncommonly detailed, privileged glimpse inside the world of organized crime from the perspective of the little guys at the bottom of Mafia hierarchy rather than from the kingpins at the top. Donnie Brasco is not only one of the great modern-day gangster movies to put in the company of The Godfather films andGoodFellas, but it is also one of the great undercover police movies--arguably surpassing Serpico and Prince of the City in richness of character, detail, and moral complexity. Donnie (Johnny Depp, a splendid actor) is practically adopted by Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino), a gregarious, low-level "made" man who grows to love his young protégé like a son. (Pacino really sinks into this guy's skin and polyester slacks, and creates his freshest, most fully realized character since his 1970s heyday.) As Donnie acclimates himself to Lefty's world, he distances himself from his wife (a terrific Anne Heche) and family for their own protection. Almost imperceptibly his sense of identity slips away from him. Questioning his own confused loyalties, unable to trust anybody else because he himself is an imposter, Donnie loses his way in a murky and treacherous no-man's land. The film is directed by Mike Newell, who also headed up Four Weddings and a Funeral and the gritty, true crime melodrama Dance with a Stranger. --Jim Emerson
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