The life of Henry Hill, from the time he first started working for neighborhood gangsters until he went state’s witness on his gang members and went into the witness protection program. Paul Cicero is the head dude who insists that everyone gives him a piece of everything. Henry marries Karen, who struggles with the morals of the lifestyle but loves Henry too much to leave him. Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito are his buddies in the gang with whom he works his scams. Both Jimmy and Tommy are wild, killing anyone who upsets them. After Tommy offs a mob member, he gets offed. Henry is put in prison and takes up the drug trade. He continues it after he gets out, cutting Paul out of the deal. Jimmy organizes a six-million dollar heist and starts offing all those hwo helped him. Finally the feds catch up with Henry, and he agrees to go state’s evidence to avoid prison and avoid getting killed by Jimmy or Paul.

Very crude, with a lot of violence and a lot of foul language. There were no sympathetic characters in the movie with the possible exception of Karen, but even she decided she loved the life too much to get out of it.