Main Cast: Nicholas Turturro, Tom Sizemore, Debi Mazar, Abe Vigoda, Philip Baker Hall
Release Year: 1998
Country: US
Run Time: 240 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
The key figure in this two-part TV mob miniseries is Mafia snitch Sammy "The Bull" Gravano (Nicholas Turturro). Gravano ratted on John Gotti (Tom Sizemore), who manipulated the 1985 murder of mob boss Paul Castellano (Abe Vigoda). Gravano is seen rising in the mob ranks through various blood-brother ceremonies, coercions, threats, family meetings, and confrontations over loyalties. In part two, informant Gravano blows the whistle on Gotti. Turturro, as Gravano, also narrates the drama, which manages to alter accuracy and bend history behind this disclaimer: "Certain events in this film that are based on fact are interpretive, certain characters are composites or have been fictionalized, and some names and locations have been changed." Premiered May 10, 1998 on NBC. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
Frank Vincent - Frankie De Cicco; Lenny Venito - Sal DiMaggio; Johnny Williams - Angelo Ruggiero; Frankie Valli - Frank LoCascio; Michael Imperioli - Louie Milito; Vincent Pastore - Mikey De Batt; Michael Ryan Segal - Nicky Cowboy; Richard Bright - Joe (Old Man) Paruta; Chris Cenatiempo - Jimmy Falcona; John Cenatiempo - Jake Falcona; Steve Randazzo; Richard Council; Kirk Acevedo; Nicholas Kepros; Jessica Di Cicco; Kathrine Narducci; Arthur Nascarella; Jason Robards III; Christopher Lawford; Robert X. Mondica; Frank Minucci - Norman Du Ponte
Credit
Ilene Starger - Casting, Daniel Orlandi - Costume Designer, Thaddeus O'Sullivan - Director, David Ray - Editor, Robert De Niro - Executive Producer, Jane Rosenthal - Executive Producer, Brad Epstein - Executive Producer, Stephen Endelman - Composer (Music Score), Wynn P. Thomas - Production Designer, Frank Prinzi - Cinematographer, Caroline Baron - Producer, T.J. O'Mara - Sound/Sound Designer, Stanley G. Weiser - Screenwriter
Witness to the Mob is a film which premiered on 10 May 1998 (USA).
Plot
Film follows the rise of Sammy Gravano in ranks of NY Cosa Nostra, his turning to government witness in legal trials of John Gotti and his life in Witness protection program. However the film doesn't give the true portrait of Sammy Gravano as it is based on the book about Gravano titled Underboss written by Peter Maas. Main source of information was Gravano himself and in result it is very polished and in many ways untrue portrait of him.
