Godfather Part II

Theatrical Release Date: 1974 12 11 (USA)

UPC: 097361329246

Studio: Paramount

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Graphic Violence, Not For Children]

Summary: Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with his son Michael's spiritual fall, deepening The Godfather's depiction of the dark side of the American dream. In the early 1900s, the child Vito flees his Sicilian village for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito (Robert De Niro) struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy, killing the local Black Hand Fanucci (Gastone Moschin) after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's communal stature grows, but it is his family (past and present) who matters most to him -- a familial legacy then upended by Michael's (Al Pacino) business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael conspires to make inroads in Las Vegas and Havana pleasure industries by any means necessary. As he realizes that allies like Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg) are trying to kill him, the increasingly paranoid Michael also discovers that his ambition has crippled his marriage to Kay (Diane Keaton) and turned his brother, Fredo (John Cazale), against him. Barely escaping a federal indictment, Michael turns his attention to dealing with his enemies, completing his own corruption. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Category: Crime

Awards: Best Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts U.S. National Film Registry – Library of Congress 100 Greatest American Movies – American Film Institute Best Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – null New Star of the Year - Male – null Best Director – null Best Screenplay – null Best Screenplay – null Best Original Score – null Best Original Score – null Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Costume Design – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Dramatic Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Dramatic Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Score – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association New Star of the Year - Male – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Score – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Director – National Society of Film Critics

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Godfather Part II

Format: DVD

Release Date: 09/23/2008

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 202 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Godfather Part II
1. Funeral In Sicily [:24]
2. It's Not His Words I'm Afraid Of [3:16]
3. Ellis Island, 1901 [3:04]
4. Party at Lake Tahoe [:44]
5. You Can Have My Answer Now [4:34]
6. Frankie Pentangeli's Complaint [4:13]
7. Bedroom Shooting [3:16]
8. New York City, 1917 [6:32]
9. Vito Meets Clemenza [1:30]
10. Keep Your Friends Close, But Your Enemies Closer [5:37]
11. Remember She Was Laughing [1:12]
12. Welcome To Havana [6:11]
13. I Know It Was You, Fredo [2:59]
14. Was It A Boy? [3:39]
15. Fanucci Wants To Wet His Beak [2:12]
16. Murder of Fanucci [4:14]
17. You Can Never Lose Your Family [6:02]
18. The Dog Stays [7:01]
19. Senate Hearing [5:59]
20. You're Nothing To Me Now [4:21]
21. Pentangeli Sees His Brother [2:31]
22. Michael, Are You Blind? [6:33]
23. My Father's Name Was Antonio Andolini [7:41]
24. Mama Corleone's Funeral [5:47]
25. You Can Kill Anyone [:35]
26. Like the Roman Empire [4:10]
27. Kay With Her Children [2:47]
28. Hail Mary, Full of Grace [2:05]
29. Surprise Party [:44]
30. End Credits [5:19]

Lucia Bozzola

Both sequel and prequel to The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II (1974) delves further into the dark side of the capitalist American dream by paralleling the young Vito Corleone's 1910s rise with his son Michael's 1950s spiritual fall. To create a more contemplative view of the Corleones' American success story, Coppola cross-cut between Vito's story (in subtitled Italian) and Michael's, revealing how the honorable aim of protecting the family degenerates into an excuse for wielding lethal power, for the sake only of business. Images of Vito's parental concern and immigrant neighborhood dealings dissolve to Michael's familial disintegration and U.S. Senate subterfuge. Cinematographer Gordon Willis' warm sepia tones for the Vito sequences recall period photographs, contrasting sharply with the crass brightness and cold shadows of 1950s Lake Tahoe and Havana. With the memory of The Godfather present in Robert De Niro's uncanny evocation of Marlon Brando and in flashbacks to 1942, Coppola underlines how much The Godfather's potentially alluring myth of family unity begat horrific violence; the film becomes both a critique of responses to the first film that may have glorified its family-oriented violence and a more explicit and mournful allegory of American corporate violence and corruption across the 20th century. These aspects, together with the unique cross-cut narrative, give the movie a richer dimension and a wider scope than the first one's family drama, and it was hailed by most observers as the rare sequel that equaled, or even surpassed, the original. A box-office hit, it was nominated for ten Oscars and won six, including Best Picture, the Director prize denied Coppola in 1972, Supporting Actor for De Niro, Art Direction, and Score. Years of sequel plans finally produced The Godfather Part III in 1990; and parts I and II were later cut together in chronological order for TV as The Godfather Saga, eliminating this film's cross-cut structure. Often equated with Citizen Kane (1941), The Godfather Part II remains one of the most artistically challenging popular films ever made. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Danny Aiello  Actor 
Dominic Chianese  Actor 
Michael Vincente Gazzo  Actor 
Gianni Russo  Actor 
Leopoldo Trieste  Actor 
Carmine Foresta  Actor 
Carmine Caridi  Actor 
Troy Donahue  Actor 
Ignazio Pappalardo  Actor 
Herkulis E. Strolia  Actor 
Sofia Coppola  Actor 
Maria Carta  Actor 
David Baker  Actor 
Carmen Argenziano  Actor 
Mario Cotone  Actor 
Morgana King  Actor 
Fay Spain  Actor 
Erica Yohn  Actor 
Frank Sivero  Actor 
Kathleen Beller  Actor 
Gastone Moschin  Actor 
Harry Dean Stanton  Actor 
James Caan  Actor 
Joseph Della Sorte  Actor 
James Gounaris  Actor 
John Aprea  Actor 
Vincent Coppola  Actor 
Marianna Hill  Actor 
Abe Vigoda  Actor 
Phil Feldman  Actor 
Ezio Flagello  Actor 
Peter Donat  Actor 
Tom Rosqui  Actor 
Amerigo Tot  Actor 
Roger Corman  Actor 
Nick Discenza  Actor 
Oreste Baldini  Actor 
Tom Dahlgren  Actor 
Bruno Kirby  Actor 
Joe Spinell  Actor 
William Bowers  Actor 
G.D. Spradlin  Actor 
Tere Livrano  Actor 
Richard Bright  Actor 
Francesca de Sapio  Actor 
Roman Coppola  Actor 
Richard Watson  Actor 
Giuseppe Sillato  Actor 
Carmine Coppola  Composer (Music Score) 
Francis Ford Coppola  Director 
Francis Ford Coppola  Producer 
Francis Ford Coppola  Screenwriter 
Gray Fredrickson  Producer 
Mario Puzo  Screenwriter 
Fred Roos  Producer 
Nino Rota  Composer (Music Score) 
Al Pacino  Actor 
Robert Duvall  Actor 
Diane Keaton  Actor 
Robert De Niro  Actor 
John Cazale  Actor 
Lee Strasberg  Actor 
Talia Shire  Actor 

Country: USA