Goodfellas Goodfellas Goodfellas (stylized GoodFellas) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is an adaptation of the 1985 non-fiction book "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980. Scorsese initially titled the film "Wise Guy" and postponed making it; later, he and Pileggi changed the title to "Goodfellas". To prepare for their roles in the film, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta often spoke with Pileggi, who shared research material left over
Harvey Keitel trying to redeem himself. He co-starred in the movie "The Piano" in 1993, and played an efficient cleanup expert, Winston "The Wolf" Wolfe in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction". Keitel starred as a police detective in Spike Lee's "Clockers" (an adaptation of Richard Price's novel, co-produced by Martin Scorsese). In 1996, Keitel had a major role in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's film "From Dusk till Dawn", and in 1997, he starred in the crime drama "Cop Land", which also starred Sylvester Stallone, Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro. His later roles include the fatherly Satan in "Little Nicky," a wise