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	Donnie Brasco (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donnie Brasco is a 1997 film by Mike Newell starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp.
		Calling himself Donnie Brasco, and posing as a diamond expert, he befriends "Lefty Guns" Ruggiero (Al Pacino), a low-level mob hit man whose personal life is in tatters, and Dominick Napolitano (Michael Madsen).
		Cersani had dealings with Donnie Brasco from back in 1972 and was brought up on racketeering charges in 1982 that were brought on by the Donnie Brasco investigation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donnie_Brasco_(film) (804 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Donnie Brasco
		Donnie Brasco is based on the true story of an FBI man who did so well that a $500,000 bounty is still on his head as he lives under an assumed name, somewhere in this great land of ours.
		Donnie's wife is kept out of sight from the mob, but Maggie (Anne Heche) is always present in the story as her husband changes before her eyes; as their daughters grow up knowing Daddy from occasional and secretive night visits.
		Donnie Brasco is not a cops and robbers story in the traditional mold.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive/donniebrasco.html (605 words)

	Joseph D. Pistone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph D. Pistone (born 1940), alias Donnie Brasco, was an FBI agent who worked undercover for 5 years to infiltrate the Bonanno family, a branch of the Mafia in New York City.
		Donnie developed a close relationship with the Bonanno "capo" (crew captain) Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, and was tutored in the ways of the Mafia by Bonanno mobster Benjamin "Lefty Guns" Ruggiero.
		This book was the basis for the 1997 film Donnie Brasco, starring Johnny Depp as Pistone and Al Pacino as Lefty Guns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donnie_Brasco (504 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Donnie Brasco: Special Edition
		Donnie Brasco is based on the true-life story of FBI agent Joe Pistone, who went undercover as a member of the New York mob for six years.
		Donnie Brasco is the cover name of an undercover agent who has spent a great deal of time developing his cover as a jewel thief and middleman.
		Donnie goes deeper and deeper into the machinations of the mob and becomes friends with Lefty, a small time hood who has never quite gotten the respect of his peers.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/donniebrascose.php (1616 words)

	DVD Review: Donnie Brasco - Special Edition
		Aside from a few minor flaws, "Donnie Brasco" is a strong picture from Newell, who does suprisingly good work here away from his usual home in comedy.
		VIDEO: Although I haven't seen Tristar's original release of "Donnie Brasco", I'd be willing to guess that like most of their re-releases this is the same presentation as the first release.
		Donnie Brasco: Out From The Shadows: This is a new featurette that details the long history of the making of "Donnie Brasco", and the real-life story behind the movie.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews2/donniebrascosedvd.html (1179 words)

	Donnie Brasco: Special Edition (1997)
		Posing as jewel broker Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joe Pistone is granted entrance into the violent mob family of aging hitman Lefty Ruggiero.
		Donnie Brasco appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Except for those Florida segments, Donnie Brasco used a pretty restricted palette; as befits the lives of low-level gangsters, we witness lots of browns and fls in the film.
	www.dvdmg.com /donniebrasco.shtml (2004 words)

	DONNIE BRASCO - the iMAGAZINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There are moments in Donnie Brasco where the mood is humorous and offbeat and others where the tension is so heavy that it's like a stream of icy cold sweat running down your back.
		The authentic air and biographical storyline doesn't lend itself to glorification, but instead travels to the opposite end of the spectrum to the bowels of crime and lowly and primal underdogs who are at their bosses' bidding.
		For Ruggiero it is the fear of not realising his dreams and for Brasco it is the genuine affection he feels for his down-trodden friend.
	www.thei.aust.com /isite/cellrvbrasco.html (692 words)

	DONNIE BRASCO
		Donnie, played by Depp, is befriended and sponsored by Lefty (Pacino) a lower member of the mafia faction run by Sonny Black (Madsen).
		Donnie's job is to pretend to join the family in order to collect evidence against them.
		DONNIE BRASCO is a story about true friendship, putting your life on the line for another.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsD/f_donnie.html (466 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Donnie Brasco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Donnie Brasco was an unlikely feature for director Mike Newell to produce, coming after such successes as Enchanted April and Four Weddings and a Funeral, but, against all odds, it’s one of the most moving and insightful gangster films ever made.
		Since Donnie Brasco is an undercover agent who flirts with going native, the audience is put repeatedly in a place where they can sympathize with the mobsters, but never burdened as strong a feeling that they are truly honorable just because they exhibit some honorable characteristics.
		A minor false note emerges in the caricature that is Donnie’s commanding officer, and his presence seems to tip the scales a bit unfairly toward resenting the authorities, but the authentic presence of Donnie’s long-suffering wife grounds many of those feelings.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1997/donniebrasco.htm (452 words)

	DONNIE BRASCO - Al Pacino's Loft
		Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction lead by Sonny Black.
		I go to the story and the entertainment value of something and say, "This film doesn't seem to me to be pushed by violence." It doesn't seem to be saying that as much as it's talking about a relationship, with this certain kind of character that has his dreams, and his aspirations.
		Brasco, who now lives under a secret identity in an undisclosed location, will be appearing at Chapters in Woodbridge, Ont., on May 1.
	velvet_peach.tripod.com /fpacdonniebrasco.html (2308 words)

	DONNIE BRASCO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As Donnie is seduced by the mob lifestyle, his identities begin to blur and his relationship with wife Maggie (ANNE HECHE) and their daughters begins to crumble.
		Donnie fakes having a bad attitude toward Japanese people in one scene so that his true identity is not revealed.
		Donnie smacks his wife after she accuses him of becoming like his new mafia family.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1997/donnie_brasco.html (1532 words)

	Donnie Brasco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Donnie Brasco is that rarest of Hollywood films -- one that outstrips its own hype.
		In Donnie (Johnny Depp), Lefty sees everything he never became in the mob: a smooth talker, a fast riser, a guy with crime skills that are simply to die for, an asset he can bring to his struggling gang.
		Donnie has only one drawback: he serves two masters, neither of which is very fond of the other.
	www.rambles.net /donnie_brasco.html (482 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: 'Donnie Brasco': OKfellas
		In this respect, "Donnie Brasco," based on the true story of FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone, comes up conspicuously short.
		The mobsters in "Donnie Brasco" (including Pacino, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby and James Russo) are the grunts and gripers of the Mafia.
		Donnie impresses Lefty immediately when he convinces the veteran hoodlum that a diamond ring he just picked up is fake.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/review97/donniebrascohowe.htm (552 words)

	Joseph D. Pistone - Donnie Brasco
		Donnie Brasco and Lefty fed the lion twenty to thirty steaks a day, and Lefty could at times be seen walking the lion up and down the street.
		Cerasani had dealings with Donnie Brasco and was aquitted in 1982 of racketeering charges stemming from Pistone's investigation.
		Donnie Brasco's cover in the underworld was as a jeweler.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /reelfaces/donniebrasco.php (875 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Donnie Brasco" review
		Based on an autobiography by ex-federal agent Joseph Pistone, "Donnie Brasco" focuses on the internal struggle of a man who has settled into the mobster life while working to bust the mob -- and trying to maintain some semblance of family life with his wife and kids.
		Donnie, with a cassette recorder forever hidden in his boots, quickly moves up in the organization, eventually being promoted over Lefty, whose lot in life seems to be remaining on a lower rung.
		Donnie feels obligated to Lefty on the one hand and his family on the other, and eventually is estranged from both of them.
	www.splicedonline.com /97reviews/donnie.html (643 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Donnie Brasco
		DONNIE BRASCO avoids answering these questions and contents itself with being a true story.
		With the power of a made man, he makes Donnie "connected," which means that Lefty is his mentor and no one will dare touch Donnie.
		Even if you could care less about organized crime, DONNIE BRASCO is as interesting an exploration of the human spirit and failings as it is a story about crime and moral turpitude.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-2/donnie-brasco.htm (899 words)

	LDS (Mormon) Character in the movie "Donnie Brasco" (1997)
		Donnie's supervisor in the FBI is a Latter-day Saint: section chief Dean Blandford.
		The movie portrays Agent Pistone and his family as active Catholics, although while he is working undercover as "Donnie Brasco," Pistone is constantly in the company of mobsters, and he does little or nothing to overtly practice his faith or live by its tenets.
		While Donnie, Lefty (Al Pacino) and their immediate boss in the mafia (played by Michael Madsen) are in Florida, Donnie sneaks away and meets with the FBI in a motel.
	www.ldsfilm.com /movies/DonnieBrasco.html (2594 words)

	Amazon.ca: Donnie Brasco: DVD: Mike Newell,Al Pacino,Johnny Depp,Michael Madsen,Bruno Kirby,James Russo,Anne ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Donnie Brasco is the alias of Joe Pistone, an undercover agent.
		DONNIE BRASCO is Johnny Depp's bright light moment...when you upstage Pacino, in yet another of his own moments of greatness, you tend to wonder what's next.
		DONNIE BRASCO could serve as an FBI training film and why protocol should dictate that married men are forbidden to undertake deep cover assignments.
	www.amazon.ca /Donnie-Brasco-Mike-Newell/dp/B00004XPPB (1495 words)

	Guns and Roses / Pacino, Depp mob thriller `Donnie Brasco' adds love triangle to the payoff
		``Donnie Brasco'' is about the agent's coming to realize that the undercover game he's playing is cruel and immoral, and that a good-guys/bad-guys view of the world -- whether it's the Mafia's or the FBI's -- is a convenient excuse for heartlessness.
		In ``Donnie Brasco'' the FBI agent finds himself the center of a love triangle between his wife and Lefty, though in a better world this wouldn't be a triangle.
		And it's touching because he is, down deep, Donnie Brasco, and he needs the father that Lefty represents almost as much as Lefty needs him.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/02/28/DD24919.DTL (770 words)

	Donnie Brasco mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Continuity: In the scene where Pacino asks a guy in a barbershop about Depp, the guy is being shaved, the shaving foam is only on his cheek, when he's in the dooropening calling Depp to come in the barbershop the foam reaches his temple, back inside the foam is only at his cheek again.
		Other: One scene shows Lefty and Donnie feeding the lion hamburgers through a crack in the window of the Cadillac so as not to be bitten or attacked by the lion while feeding it.
		Continuity: In the scene where the guy is vouching for Donnie at the barbershop, when he and Lefty walk out of the barbershop the windshield wipers on the Lincoln Donnie is sitting in are off, and so is the car.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film370 (757 words)

	Donnie Brasco Reviewed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As the movie continues Donnie becomes more and more involved with the underworld he is infiltrating.
		And as Donnie becomes more alienated from his FBI compatriots and superiors (who are shown to be unconcerned with the risks he takes) Lefty becomes Donnie's only real friend.
		Complicating things further, the faction of the mob Donnie is a part of becomes heavily involved in an internal power struggle within the mob itself.
	home.ptd.net /~konecny/donniebrasco.html (720 words)

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		Donnie collapses heavily on his bed, amidst the spare furnishings of his apartment...
		DONNIE The last thing I want to do tonight is go to the movies with the Grants.
		WHITE CASTLE Donnie and a melancholy Lefty sit on the hood of the Cadillac, throwing hamburgers to the Lion.
	www.weeklyscript.com /Donnie%20Brasco.txt (7604 words)

	The DVD Journal: Donnie Brasco: Special Edition
		Another example is Donnie Brasco from 1997, now receiving a reissue on DVD from Columbia TriStar as a special-edition disc with a ton of extras.
		Donnie Brasco is a fine film, deeply moving, funny, and suspenseful.
		There is also a well-acted scene of Lefty talking to Sonny about his shirt and then Sonny pressuring Donnie to reveal what Lefty is up to (a moment from this sequence was included in the trailer, and he only one of these scenes that the movie would have benefited from keeping).
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/d/donniebrasco.se.shtml (1123 words)

	Salon \| "Donnie Brasco"
		new mob drama "Donnie Brasco" is the story of a federal agent (Johnny Depp) who goes undercover to bring down the mob and winds up bonding with the man (Al Pacino) he has to betray.
		You wouldn't mistake "Donnie Brasco" for a great movie or an important one, but it's something that's become almost as rare in American movies: a consistently absorbing and intelligent adult entertainment.
		The emotional impact that the movie accumulates is all the more impressive when you realize how clear-eyed it is. "Donnie Brasco" is set among the mid-levels of New York's Bonnano family during the late '70s and early '80s.
	www.salonmagazine.com /feb97/brasco970228.html (1233 words)

	Donnie Brasco
		Donnie Brasco is inspired by a true story of trust and betrayal in the cutthroat world of the mafia underground.
		During a three-year infiltration of the Mob, FBI agent Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp), alias Donnie Brasco, becomes torn between his commitment to his job and family, and the increasingly violent and seductive demands of his new identity.
		Donnie Brasco is another character in a series of eclectic roles in which Johnny Depp more than admirably proves his versatility and genius as one of his generations most talented leading men.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Set/6066/donnie.html (460 words)

	Donnie Brasco (AU - DVD R4) in Reviews > Video Discs at DVDActive
		In reality Brasco is uncover FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone, who has infiltrated a New York crime family.
		This film is a character exploration and is less focused on the gory violence so often associated with the mafia (there is one scene that will try to make a liar of me, but it is fairly telegraphed and can be avoided by squeamish audience members).
		Donnie Brasco is a film that slipped by a lot of people.
	www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/donnie-brasco.html (1052 words)

	Donnie Brasco (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Trivia: When Donnie and Nicky are looking at the headline in the Newspaper about the boss getting killed, they are looking at the picture of mob boss Carmine Galente who was killed in back of a Brooklyn, N.Y. restaurant in 1979.
		from Saffron Walden, UK In a world filled with overheated, and frequently overpraised, gangster movies, it seems to me that Mike Newell's 'Donnie Brasco', the story of a cop who goes undercover to infiltrate the mob, is arguably overlooked.
		Differences between 'Donnie Brasco' the book and the movie
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0119008 (430 words)

	Amazon.com: Donnie Brasco: Video: Mike Newell,Al Pacino,Johnny Depp,Michael Madsen,Bruno Kirby,James Russo,Anne ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"Donnie Brasco" is a true mafia masterpiece and what is more interesting about it is that it is based on an amazing true story.
		"Donnie Brasco" represents a sort of coming out for Johnny Depp in that this was really his first adult dramatic role that didn't portray him as a teenager or something in the Science Fiction range.
		With its rich screenplay and strong performances, 'Donnie Brasco' is a good film that ultimately is more about the friendship between two people rather than the mafia.
	www.amazon.com /Donnie-Brasco-Mike-Newell/dp/0800187873 (2949 words)

	MOVIE-REVIEW - 'Donnie Brasco' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Virtually all of the Italian-American characters in movies are mobsters, and ''Donnie Brasco'' is no exception, but it has a new take on mobbery.
		But the movie begins with Brasco already involved with the mob, so we don't get any scenes to show us if Brasco really loves his family or if he's trying to escape them.
		''Donnie Brasco'' is frustrating, because it's literate, smartly made and maybe only a couple of scenes away from greatness (a few half-formed moments, particularly with Lefty's family, suggest that whole subplots have been edited out).
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/022897/brasco1.htm (319 words)

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