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Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the
multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema:
one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all
time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest
son, Michael, respectively. It is the late 1940s in New York and
Corleone is, in the parlance of organized crime, a "godfather" or "don,"
the head of a Mafia family. Michael, a free thinker who defied his
father by
enlisting in the Marines
to fight in World War II, has returned a captain and a war hero. Having
long ago rejected the family business, Michael shows up at the wedding
of his sister, Connie (Talia Shire), with his non-Italian girlfriend,
Kay (Diane Keaton), who learns for the first time about the family
"business." A few months later at Christmas time, the don barely
survives being shot by gunmen in the employ of a drug-trafficking rival
whose request for aid from the Corleones' political connections was
rejected. After saving his father from a second assassination attempt,
Michael persuades his hotheaded eldest brother, Sonny (James Caan), and
family advisors Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) and Sal Tessio (Abe Vigoda)
that he should be the one to exact revenge on the men responsible. After
murdering a corrupt police captain and the drug trafficker, Michael
hides out in Sicily while a gang war erupts at home. Falling in love
with a local girl, Michael marries her, but she is later slain by
Corleone enemies in an attempt on Michael's life. Sonny is also
butchered, having been betrayed by Connie's husband. As Michael returns
home and convinces Kay to marry him, his father recovers and makes peace
with his rivals, realizing that another powerful don was pulling the
strings behind the narcotics endeavor that began the gang warfare. Once
Michael has been groomed as the new don, he leads the family to a new
era of prosperity, then launches a campaign of murderous revenge against
those who once tried to wipe out the Corleones, consolidating his
family's power and completing his own moral downfall. Nominated for 11
Academy Awards and winning for Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando),
and Best Adapted Screenplay, The Godfather was followed by a pair of
sequels. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
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