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GoodFellas(1990)
Released
1990 · FILM

GoodFellas

A young Brooklyn boy is drawn into the seductive world of organized crime, rising through the ranks with a crew of outlaws while balancing love, loyalty, and the growing threat of betrayal.

Three decades of life in the mafia.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
145 min
BiographyCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Henry Hill, a half-Irish and half-Sicilian Brooklyn native, was taken in by local gangsters at a young age and became immersed in organized crime. Under the mentorship of Jimmy Conway, Hill ascended through the ranks of a Mafia family, becoming deeply involved in its operations.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 150+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by James Y KweiShot by Michael BallhausDesigned by Kristi Zea

Box Office

1990 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$47.1M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$47.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $46.8M 99% of worldwide · International: $236K (1%)

Opening weekend: $6.4M 14% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 1,070 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Good Fellas – Drei Jahrzehnte in der Mafiade
  • GoodFellas – Drei Jahrzehnte in der Mafiade
  • GoodFellasen
  • Uno de los nuestroses
  • Les Affranchisfr
  • Quei bravi ragazziit

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