Release Date:
08/17/2004
Before young white males wanted to be ganstaz, they wanted to be gangsters. Martin Scorsese's Mob standard charts one such wide-eyed kiddie (based on real-life mobster Henry Hill's memoirs) from his quick rise in the Mafia to his cocaine-addled disappearance into the witness protection program. If you haven't seen this film yet, you deserve to hang in a meat locker. For everybody else who's memorized at least three lines each from Pesci, DeNiro, and Liotta, the special edition riffles through plenty more reasons for replay. Take your pick from commentary tracks: One boasts the entire cast and crew, the other talks with Hill and one of the FBI agents who brought him down. The documentary, "Getting Made," goes on set and into the editing room during production to catch Scorsese in action and sits down for present-day interviews with Liotta and Hill side by side. "Workaday Gangster" gets into the grimier side of organized crime, getting more from Hill on what it's like to rat out your lifelong friends. (Short answer: not pleasant.) "Made Men" sits down with a host of current directors, from Jon Favreau to the Hughes brothers, to discuss their favorite scenes, performances, and beatings. If you don't pick this up immediately, in the fucking oven you go
headfirst.