I didn't include Martin Scorsese's gangster movie The Departed because I just mentioned it in a recent streaming column on movies with twist endings. BONUS: The Departed & Heat & Carlito's Way & Public Enemies Stream Donnie Brasco with a Showtime subscription (opens in new tab) or for the usual fees at the usual places. The film was praised for the script and performances and made solid money at the box office, even with a decent amount of gangster movie competition in the mid-'90s. Paul Attanasio's script was based on the true story of an FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family in New York in the 1970s. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.Al Pacino plays gangster Lefty, who shows Donnie Brasco (Johnny Depp) the ways of the mafia in this 1997 mob movie from Mike Newell. This story first appeared in a December stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. That really stuck with me.” She still regrets taking off for Europe the day the Oscar nominations were announced. “He said the most important thing for an actor was to listen. Moriarty says the best advice she received was from De Niro. Moriarty was 17, living in the Bronx and completely unaware that a bicoastal search was going on for an actress who “must be blonde and have excellent figure. “I can’t say enough about how much they helped me,” she says.

One person who owes her career to the trio was Cathy Moriarty, who received an Oscar nom for supporting actress. The Hollywood Reporter said the film was “probably the most unromanticized movie biography ever produced in Hollywood.” Yet Raging Bull got eight Academy Award nominations, with De Niro winning for actor and Thelma Schoonmaker for editing.

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