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The Godfather Part II

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• Crime/detective
• Drama

• 1974
• Francis Ford Coppola
• 193 mins
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Summary

Epic crime drama starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton. Michael Corleone is determined to legitimise the family business, but struggles to escape its violent past. With his leadership challenged by rival factions, Michael becomes increasingly obsessed with family loyalty, as he remembers his late father's first, challenging days in America.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Adrian Turner

In The Godfather, Don Corleone's war hero son Michael (Al Pacino) turns into a man who orders death like room service. In this sequel, Michael is a symbol of an America born of immigrant idealism and dying of corruption. The only moral support is the Family. Breathtaking in scope, Part II also shows the early life of the Don, brilliantly portrayed by Robert De Niro, as he flees Sicily and sails for New York. These sequences have the grandeur of a silent movie by DW Griffith or Erich von Stroheim; the later sequences, with Michael in Cuba, are clumsy and confusing, though the climax is as chilling as the look on Michael's face when he realises that even Family members can be rubbed out. Pacino gives a monumental performance, and it was an equally monumental crime that he never won an Oscar for it.

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Cast

rolenameMichael CorleoneAl PacinoTom HagenRobert DuvallKay CorleoneDiane KeatonVito CorleoneRobert De NiroConnieTalia ShireFredo CorleoneJohn CazaleHyman RothLee StrasbergFrank PentangeliMichael V GazzoAl NeriRichard BrightFanucciGaston MoschinGencoFrank SiveroMama CorleoneMorgana KingDeanna Corleone Marianna HillMerle JohnsonTroy DonahueWillie CicciJoe SpinellTessioAbe VigodaMrs Marcia RothFay SpainVito's motherMaria CartaSen Pat GearyG D SpradlinRocco LamponeTom RosquiFBI agentHarry Dean StantonSonny CorleoneJames Caan

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rolenameDirectorFrancis Ford Coppola

Details

Theatrical distributor

Park Circus

Released on

2014-02-21

Languages

English | Latin | Italian | Spanish

Guidance

Violence, swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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