Film Lore

This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960's and 70's New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred Italian gangster, who turns out to be Henry's best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.

Henry Hill -Ray
Liotta For Henry Hill the only career he ever wanted was to be a gangster. Growing up he was poor and desired the respect and money that comes from being a part of an organized crime family. When he was but a boy he would deliver things for mobsters and do other small errands. As he grew older be slowly became more and more a part of the crime family. Harry finally builds a strong friendship with both Deniro and Pesci. Harry meets someone he wishes to marry and slowly she is drawn into the mystique and adventure of the mob family. At one point Harry beats someone with his gun just for harrassing the woman he wanted to marry. He did this in broad daylight and after his deed is done he hands his gun to his woman and asks her to hide it. She didn't even question this. Finally Harry and his girl marry. She is introduced to all the mob characters who seem to all be named Maria, or Tony. He shows her the good life. They never have to wait to get into restaurants or theators. They are just waved in via the back entrance. Unfortunately the high life soon goes sour when Tommy Devito (pesci) kills a mob boss and Henry is talked into covering everything up. Unfortunately everything doesn't go according to plan and the other bosses find out and kill Tommy. Harry fears for his life as the bosses may be after him too. The Feds are as well and Harry tries to scrounge up enough cash to get out of town.

Tommy Devito -Joe Pesci
Tommy is a maverick. He shoots one young mob apprentice in the foot because he was slow bringing him a drink. When the young boy returns from the hospital he tells Tommy to go f**k himself. Jimmy looks at Tommy and asks if he is going to take that. Tommy then rises up and shoots the boy dead. Another time Tommy meets someone he knew from his youth that gives him a hard time about his past as a shoeshine boy. Tommy comes back later with Jimmy and kills the old guy. The only problem with this death was that the guy was a mob boss, and not to be touched unless a higher up okayed it. Jimmy, and Tommy put this body in the trunk of their car and head to the hills with Harry to hide the body. Everyone gets suspicious about where this murdered mob boss is. A few weeks later the buried body has to be dug up again to be moved. Ultimately the higher ups find out what Tommy has done and he is killed just before he becomes a full boss himself.

Jimmy Conway -Robert De Niro
At first could be described as the older and more sensible one but as the film goes on and his dealings with Tommy and Ray go by this is blowen out of the water completely. Jimmy's life decends into anarchy as the FEDs first begin to harrass him and then in an act of stupidity he and Tommy kill a mob boss thus encuring the anger of the whole of the crime world. Unfortunately for Tommy he is killed shortly before he himself is made a boss.