The Godfather

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The Godfather
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R,2hrs 55min
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Released:
March 24, 1972
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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The wedding sequence... is a virtuoso stretch of filmmaking: Coppola brings his large cast onstage so artfully that we are drawn at once into the Godfather's world. Full Review
Metascore
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Universal Acclaim
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Featured Cast
Don Vito Corleone
Michael Corleone
Sonny Corleone
Barzini
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