The Godfather

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1972 | R | 179 min | Crime, Drama

Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, The Godfather won three Academy Awards, was a huge success at the box office, and influenced a half-century of filmmaking. Director Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus, which he co-scripted with Mario Puzo based on his novel, is at once a richly textured period gangster film and a cinematic tragedy of Shakespearean succession. The intergenerational Corleone crime family, from Don Vito (Marlon Brando) to Michael (Al Pacino), spin their powerful friends, enemies, and a few unlucky relatives, through a breathtaking cycle of violence, vengeance and American myth-making.

“The Godfather is the most memorable, most influential, most quoted, most beloved, most discussed, most imitated, most revered and most entertaining American movie ever made.” — Richard Roeper, The Chicago-Sun Times

“Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama.” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian