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My Blue Heaven movie storyline. The mobster Vincent ‘Vinnie’ Antonelli is under the witness protection program and the FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to take Vinnie and his wife Linda to a house in the suburbs. However their wives leave Vinnie and Barney and the agent gets closer to the gangster and befriends him. Vinnie is a bon vivant and a crook and does not keep the necessary low profile.
The District Attorney Hannah Stubbs arrests him but Barney releases him from jail since he needs to testify against the Mafia. Soon Barney falls in love with Stubbs, but Vinnie gets into many troubles calling the attention of two hitmen from the Mafia. The police officer Crystal Rybak protects him and they also falls in love with each other. In the end, the good-hearted Vinnie becomes a prominent personality in the suburbs.
My Blue Heaven is a 1990 crime comedy film directed by Herbert Ross, written by Nora Ephron, and starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack. This is the third film in which Martin and Moranis starred together. It has been noted for its relationship to Goodfellas, which was released one month later. Both films are based upon the life of Henry Hill, although the character is renamed “Vincent ‘Vinnie’ Antonelli” in My Blue Heaven.
Goodfellas was based upon the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, while the screenplay for My Blue Heaven was written by Pileggi’s wife Nora Ephron, and much of the research for both works was done in the same sessions with Hill.
My Blue Heaven (1990)
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Starring: Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Melanie Mayron, Bill Irwin, Carol Kane, William Hickey, Deborah Rush, Daniel Stern, Jesse Bradford, Corey Carrier
Screenplay by: Nora Ephron
Production Design by: Charles Rosen
Cinematography by: John Bailey
Film Editing by: Robert M. Reitano, Stephen A. Rotter
Costume Design by: Joseph G. Aulisi
Set Decoration by: Donald J. Remacle
Art Direction by: Richard Berger
Music by: Ira Newborn, Walter Donaldson
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: August 17, 1990
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