Based on Henry Hill...?
How is that the case?
Its based off the Nicholas Pileggi book "Wiseguys" which is about Henry Hill, which occurs after he enters Witness Protection. Also Nora Ephron,Pileggi's wife, wrote the screenplay.
shareRead The Trivia! Henry Hill was paid a one-time fee of $250,000.00 for the Producer's to use his story.
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Hill says in the follow up to wiseguys, Gangsters and Goodfellas;
'In 1990, the same year Goodfellas came out she (Nora Ephorn) had a little movie released called My Blue Heaven, starring Steve Martin, about a New Yorker in Witness Protection out west - just like i had been in Omaha. When I saw it I flipped because she used some of the stuff I had told her on the phone for her movie scenes. She took a combination of me and Michael Franceze, another rat she had read about in the papers. I never got a penny for it, but Nick had been so generous with me that i just let it slide'
'In 1990, the same year Goodfellas came out she (Nora Ephorn) had a little movie released called My Blue Heaven, starring Steve Martin, about a New Yorker in Witness Protection out west - just like i had been in Omaha. When I saw it I flipped because she used some of the stuff I had told her on the phone for her movie scenes. She took a combination of me and Michael Franceze, another rat she had read about in the papers. I never got a penny for it, but Nick had been so generous with me that i just let it slide'
I can actually hear Ray Liota saying that, lolz.
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This is seriously the coolest bit of trivia I've read in a long time. I loved this movie as a kid. It's good, clean fun with two masters of that particular craft: Steve Martin and Rick Moranis (although SM can throw f-bombs with the best of them).
Now I have even more of a reason to love MBH.