The film details Henry's moving up the ranks, his eventual imprisonment, his role in (at the time) the largest heist in American history, and his involvement with the cocaine trade (which eventually gets him arrested by narcotics officers and shunned by the Mob). Goodfellas (stylized GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime film co-written and directed by Martin Scorsese, adapted from the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi (who also co-wrote), which follows the story of New York City gangster Henry Hill ( Ray Liotta) from his induction into the Lucchese crime family in the 1950s to his downfall and entry into the Witness Protection Program in the 1980s.Īlong with Henry, the film additionally follows Henry's boss Jimmy Conway ( Robert De Niro), his best friend Tommy DeVito ( Joe Pesci), and his wife Karen Friedman ( Lorraine Bracco).
