Academy Awards 1998 - Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay
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Donnie Brasco
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Film SynopsisAl Pacino and Johnny Depp are terrific together in this excellent Mafia drama from director Mike Newell. Pacino, who played undercover cop Frank Serpico 25 years before, now becomes the hunted Mafia man whom undercover cop Johnny Depp is after. The film was coproduced by Barry Levinson and the screenplay was written by Paul Attanasio, two of the people responsible for the extraordinary television police drama Homicide. Get Involved |
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memberRuntime:
147 min.
Genres:
Drama
Mystery / Thriller
Crime
Country:
UNITED STATES
Language:
English/American
Color:
Color
Certification:
R
Tagline
In 1978, the US government waged a war against organized crime. One man was left behind the lines
Plot Summary
Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp) is an FBI mole who integrates himself into the Mafia pecking order by posing as "jewel man" Donnie Brasco. He finds his loyalties divided when Lefty Ruggiero, a jaded hit man, takes him on as a protégé and places real trust in him. The two men form a friendship--and a criminal partnership--that jeopardizes Brasco's mission and obscures the boundaries between the law and the underworld. The film is based on the autobiography Donnie Brasco, My Undercover Life In the Mafia by former undercover agent Joseph D. Pistone. Directed by Mike Newell and also starring Bruno Kirby, Michael Madsen and Anne Heche.
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Directed by
Mike Newell
Produced by
Louis DiGiaimo
Mark Johnson
Barry Levinson
Gail Mutrex
Writing credits
Paul Attanasio
Cast
| Al Pacino | ||
| Johnny Depp | ||
| Michael Madsen | ||
| Bruno Kirby | ||
| Anne Heche |
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