Search - Gotti: The Rise and Fall of a Real Life Mafia Don on DVD

MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1996 DVD Release: 09/19/2000 Format: DVD Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 57 mins Studio: HBO Home Video Total Copies: 12 Genres: Crime, Crime Drama, Gangster Film, Biopic [feature]

Gotti is the semi-biographical tale of John Gotti, the infamous crime boss of the Gambino mob family. This drama chronicles not only the bloody rise of Gotti, also known as the "Dapper Don", but the FBI's struggle to bring him to justice. His refusal to play by the normal "rules" of the mafia ultimately became the mobster's achilles heel; the FBI eventually persuaded assassin Sammy "The Bull" Gravano to testify against his ungrateful, paranoid boss, who was finally imprisoned in 1982. Gotti is based in part on a book written by Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain titled Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti. Gotti, directed by Robert Harmon stars Armand Assante as the complicated mafia lord, and also features actors Anthony Quinn and William Forsythe. The drama aired on HBO in 1996, unwittingly serving as a precurser to what would later become the wildly popular mob drama The Sopranos. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide

Armand Assante - John Gotti
Anthony Quinn - Neil Delacroce
William Forsythe - Sammy Gravano
Richard Sarafian - Paul Castellano
Vincent Pastore - Angelo Ruggiero

The made-for-cable biopic Gotti comes to DVD with a standard full-frame 1.33:1 image that preserves the original broadcast aspect ratio. There is an English soundtrack rendered in Dolby Digital Surround, a French soundtrack recorded in Dolby Digital Stereo, and a Spanish soundtrack mixed in Dolby Digital Mono. Subtitles for those three languages may also be accessed. Supplemental features are limited to cast and crew bios. Fans of gangster pictures will enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at a real life Mafia figure, but nothing on this disc will interest the casual disc consumer. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide