Donnie brasco

Sign In. Edit Donnie Brasco Directed by Mike Newell

There have been a handful of movies about brave souls who work undercover for the government against the mob and organized crime. Scorsese also hit "snitch" paydirt with The Irishman in Given that it's such an intense story, we decided to dig into the terrific mafia film and see how much of the story actually happened and what Newell took artistic liberty with while looking in on what the informant has been doing in the decades since leaving the FBI. An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the Mafia life--at the expense of his regular one. Donnie Brasco is the alias of FBI agent Joe Pistone Depp who went undercover to work his way into the inner circles of two of the most dangerous and deadly mob families ever. From to , Pistone assumed this identity and risked his life every day to get information on hundreds of gangsters in the Bonnano and Colombo families.

Donnie brasco

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the Mafia life--at the expense of his regular one. Lefty : [standing next to Donnie's car at night] There's the boss. And, under him, there's the skipper. You know how this works? Donnie Brasco : Yeah, it's like in the army. Lefty : Bullshit. The army is some guy you don't know telling you to go whack some other guy you don't know. Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Donnie Brasco R 2h 7m. Play trailer

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Pistone and Richard Woodley. Brasco maneuvers his way into the confidence of an aging Mafia hitman , Lefty Ruggiero Pacino , who vouches for him. As Donnie moves deeper into the Mafia, he realizes that not only is he crossing the line between federal agent and criminal, but also leading his friend Lefty to an almost certain death. Donnie insists that a diamond Lefty has acquired from a strip club owner is fake; when the two confront the owner, Donnie beats him and takes his car as repayment. Lefty teaches Donnie the rules of the Mafia and introduces him to members of his crew, including Sonny Black , Nicky, Paulie, and rival crew leader Sonny Red. After the boss of the family is killed, Sonny Black is promoted to lead the crew; Lefty resents the decision, believing that his years of service make him more deserving. As the crew runs a series of successful shakedowns and hijackings in the city, Pistone exploits his position as an associate in Lefty's crew to gather information for the FBI via wiretap recordings.

Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Jump to Summaries 3 Synopsis 1 Edit. An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the Mafia life--at the expense of his regular one. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for "the bosses. However, the trials and tribulations of the undercover work become more than Pistone can bear. His marriage falls apart, and to top it off, the Mafia suspect a mole in the organization. The real dilemma is afforded to Pistone, who knows that if he walks away from the Mafia, Ruggiero will be the one punished. Pistone is married and has children, but he is away for weeks or months at a time, eventually leading to his wife asking for a divorce.

Donnie brasco

The FBI created the alias of Brasco to stem the rising truck hijacking numbers, but Brasco was able to rise quickly within the ranks and be nominated for membership in the Bonanno crime family. Eventually, Brasco was pulled and the mission was ended for his safety. Going under the name of "Donnie Brasco," Pistone became close to several Mafia members during an assignment that lasted five years and the information he amassed over that time led to hundreds of arrests. There were five to six major hijackings per day in the New York City area and intelligence sources indicated that all were somehow tied to various Mafia families. Pistone went to school to learn about precious gems, and the FBI set him up with an apartment in New York and one in Florida, while his family lived in another part of the country. He targeted bars and restaurants he knew were frequented by certain mob members until one day he got into a conversation with Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero. Ruggiero had worked as a loyal foot soldier for the Mafia for 30 years and killed 26 people in total. Brasco impressed him and the two joined forces as business partners, with Ruggiero becoming his mentor and sponsor — if Brasco let the family down Ruggiero would pay with his own life. An average day would start with checking in with Ruggiero, Brasco's captain, and then hanging out in a bar or nightclub trying to think of new ways to make money or advancing up the Mafia ladder.

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Tools Tools. Depp and Pistone spent several months together before principal photography began and then Pistone was on set every day during filming. Visual Effects by Martin Body If you want to get in touch with him, good luck to you. Create account. Mafia girlfriend uncredited Frank Pietrangolare Most jewel thieves operate alone. Watch on Netflix. Mob Girlfriend Elle Alexander Anne Heche Maggie. The movie is a gangster movie but has its focus on the relationship between Lefty and Donnie and sometimes on other relationships. Berger Walt MacPherson However, in the source material, Joe Pistone noted that Sonny Black did eventually start introducing him, as Donnie Brasco, as "a friend of ours" even though he was not a made man.

Joseph Dominick Pistone born September 17, is an American former FBI agent who worked undercover as Donnie Brasco between September and July , [nb 1] as part of an infiltration primarily into the Bonanno crime family , and to a lesser extent the Colombo crime family , two of the Five Families of the Mafia in New York City. The evidence collected by Pistone led to over indictments and over convictions of Mafia members, and some responsible for his infiltration were also killed by other mobsters. Pistone was a pioneer in long-term undercover work.

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