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Goodfellas taglines:“As far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be a gangster.” — Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.

Goodfellas DVD Cover Download “Goodfellas” 1990	Actors: Suzanne Shepherd Robert De Niro Jimmy Conway Ray Liotta Henry Hill Joe Pesci Tommy DeVito Lorraine Bracco Karen Hill Paul Sorvino Paul Cicero Chuck Low Morris ‘Morrie’ Kessler Frank DiLeo Tuddy Cicero Frank Sivero Frankie Carbone Tony Darrow Sonny Bunz Mike Starr Frenchy Frank Vincent Billy Batts Frank Adonis Anthony Stabile Catherine Scorsese Mrs. DeVito, Tommy’s Mother Gina Mastrogiacomo Janice Rossi Karen’s Mother
	Directors: Martin Scorsese
	IMDB Rating: 8.8/10 out of 211,611 votes

“Goodfellas” 1990 by Martin Scorsese – Movie Goofs

“Goodfellas” Plot Summary

Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.

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• Continuity: When Karen is holding a gun in Henry’s face, a different gun is used for close-up and long shots.
• Continuity: When Karen visits Henry in prison, cheese and salami on the table change position between shots.
• Continuity: When Karen visits Henry in jail the daughter sitting on her lap plays with blocks. These blocks change between shots.
• Continuity: When Karen is throwing things on the table while visiting Henry in prison, her youngest daughter is crying on Henry’s lap. She goes to hug him and immediately is seen with a bottle and pacifier which she did not have in her hands the second before.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Tommy takes out Stacks, he says, “You’d be late to your own funeral” as he puts the gun to the back of Stacks’ head. When they show Tommy in slow motion, he doesn’t say anything. This is not a goof but rather because Tommy shoots him once in the head and then moves positions before shooting him again. In slow-mo, we do not see the first shot, only the latter ones.
• Anachronisms: When Lois is making the call that dooms Henry, the Trimline phone she used has the post-divestiture AT&T logo which was not created until 1984, four years after this scene takes place.
• Anachronisms: In the establishing shots of “Idlewild Airport, 1963,” we see a Swissair jet in a livery consisting of black and dark green stripes and the title “Swissair” in lower-case red letters on the fuselage. This color scheme was not introduced on Swissair aircraft until 1981.
• Continuity: When Sonny Bunz has his sitdown with Paulie about Tommy, there is an over-the-shoulder shot from behind Sonny of Paulie talking with a cigar in his mouth. The next shot is an over-the-shoulder from behind Paulie of Sonny, but there’s no cigar in Paulie’s mouth. The following shot is another over-the-shoulder from behind Sonny and Paulie has the cigar in his mouth again.
• Continuity: When the police car pulls up when Jimmy is handing out cartons of cigarettes from the truck hijacking, the same two-tone brown 1957 Buick two-door sedan drives by in the background several times in the same direction.
• Crew or equipment visible: Front of camera can be seen reflected in the side of the phone booth Jimmy is in when he calls about Tommy being made.
• Continuity: When Henry brings in the bag of supplies in jail he hands the wine bottles to Paulie then picks up a bottle of scotch and two jars. The next camera shot shows him holding bread, a different bottle of scotch and two jars.
• Crew or equipment visible: When young Henry and Tuddy Cicero are “running around” and making Paul’s phone calls and Henry enters the phone booth, you can see a wireless mike pack in his back pocket.
• Factual errors: Henry looks into a bag filled with $20 bills over his narration. The 20s are signed by “James A. Baker” (James Baker III), who was Treasury Secretary in 1985. The scene, however, takes place in the mid to late 1970s.
• Revealing mistakes: When Karen drives off after Jimmy tells her to go into the dress shop, the car blows a fake license plate off a car.
• Continuity: After Tommy shoots Spider’s foot, Henry gets up to help him, but can be seen sitting down in the background.
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious blood spray used in wide shot of Stacks Edwards Hit. Also, Tommy’s gun does not recoil.
• Continuity: The phone jumps around on Morry’s shoulder when he’s talking to Henry.
• Continuity: Henry’s Catholic cross and Star of David during the shower scene.
• Crew or equipment visible: A camera is visible in the background at Henry’s mother-in-law’s house when they go to hide the gun.
• Continuity: Series of over 10 shots where items such as wine glasses and napkins on the table fill, empty and move themselves while Tommy is telling his anecdote at the restaurant.
• Anachronisms: Near the end, when Henry is driving around and watching for the helicopter, a package of Winston cigarettes is on the dashboard of his car. This particular package design has a gold eagle on it and was newly marketed beginning around 1987, several years after the story takes place.
• Anachronisms: The Cadillac Coupe DeVille Phaeton (a 1979 model) that Henry drives (while watching the helicopter near the end) has a rear dash-mounted brake light, which wasn’t available until 1986, although the scene is set in the late 1970s.
• Continuity: A title card dates the Billy Batts murder as June 11, 1970. Later, Henry says “it’s been six months” when they go to dig up the grave. It should therefore be winter in New York, but the boys are in shirt sleeves and Henry’s kids are going to the beach the next day.
• Continuity: When Henry’s mistress is having a party and showing off her new apartment, the ladies walk from the living room to the bedroom. The second lady changes positions to the third lady entering the bedroom.
• Continuity: During Tommy’s “Why am I funny” speech, the position of Henry’s left hand, as well as the objects he is holding (cigarette, glass) change and move.
• Anachronisms: The pay phone in the airport diner is of the familiar current design, which was introduced by the Bell System in the late 1960s, or several years after this scene takes place (1963). It is, however, the rotary dial version.
• Factual errors: When Maury’s address is shown in his TV ad, not only is it not hyphenated, as all Queens addresses are, but addresses in Queens are written as “Neighborhood, NY”, not “Queens, NY”. Names of the other four boroughs are used in the address, however, except for Manhattan addresses, which are always “New York, NY”.
• Continuity: Karen’s sweater has dirt on the shoulder after Henry’s fight. When she is at the door the sweater is clean.
• Anachronisms: The bass player in the band in the restaurant in 1963 is playing a Gibson EB-2D which was not introduced until 1966.
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in the window while Karen is trying to find where Jimmy is keeping the stolen dresses.
• Boom mic visible: When Henry is released from prison and Karen is waiting by her car, the mic is reflected in the car window as Karen turns to her right to hug Henry.
• Continuity: In the “You’re a funny guy” scene, a styrofoam coffee cup disappears and reappears three times.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the “You’re a funny guy” scene (set in 1963), a bottle of Crown Royal whisky can be seen on the table. Crown Royal wasn’t introduced for sale until 1965. Tommy smuggled Crown Royal into the States before it was legally imported.
• Anachronisms: When young Henry Hill is arrested for selling black-market cigarettes (late 1950s), UPC barcodes are visible on the cigarette cartons. UPC barcodes first appeared in the late 1970s.
• Revealing mistakes: When the mailman’s head is pushed into the pizza oven, his hand is clearly seen resting on the inside of the oven door before the image is frozen, even though a cooked pizza is shown inside the oven as it is opened (i.e. it was too hot for him to keep his hand there for the few seconds shown without reacting).
• Crew or equipment visible: At 42.56 minutes, one of the cameramen can be seen on the right-hand side of the screen.
• Crew or equipment visible: During the long Steadicam shot through the restaurant’s kitchen, the camera’s shadow is briefly visible on the left-hand side as it exits.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Billy Batts says, “What?” to Tommy in the bar, Billy’s lips don’t move.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Billy Batts is mocking Tommy in the bar he eventually raises his glass and says “Salud, Tommy”, but his lips aren’t moving.
• Continuity: Young Henry is right-handed, while older Henry is left-handed.
• Continuity: In the beginning of the day May 11, 1980, Henry puts a paper bag into the car trunk with the left hand. But in the close-up we see a hand with a watch and a bracelet, although Henry is wearing them on the right hand.
• Continuity: After Tommy breaks a bottle on the head of restaurant owner, his jacket changes from clean and dry to splashed and back between shots
• Continuity: When Jimmy strangles Maury the wig man with the telephone chord Maury’s grip on the phone changes between shots.
• Revealing mistakes: After Tommy De Vito kills Morrie from behind in the car, you can see Morrie clearly breathing on the left edge of the screen.
• Anachronisms: In a segment introduced as Brooklyn, 1955, the camera pans to follow Henry running off to his job at the cab stand. Part of t

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