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The Godfather: Part III (1990)

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In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in New York and Italy in 1979, aging Mafia don Michael Corleone seeks to avow for his sins while taking a young protégé under his wing.
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In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge's love affair with his daughter. Written by Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>

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Rated R for violence and language | See all certifications »

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25 December 1990 (USA)  »

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Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part III  »

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$54,000,000 (estimated)

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$66,676,062 (USA)
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| (The Godfather Trilogy 1901-1980 VHS Special Edition)

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1.85 : 1
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Sofia Coppola (daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola), plays Michael Corleone's daughter, despite playing his niece as an infant in The Godfather (1972). Winona Ryder was originally cast, but she withdrew so that she could act in Edward Scissorhands (1990). See more »

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When Mary gets out of the car in Italy, one of the presents she is holding is a box containing a Barbie doll. The packaging is the style of the late 80s/early 90s. See more »

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Michael Corleone: [voiceover] My dear children: It is now better than several years since I moved to New York, and I haven't seen you as much as I would like to. I hope you will come to the ceremony of papal honors given for my charitable work. The only wealth in this world is children; more than all the money, power on earth, you are my treasure.
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"Dedicated to Charlie Bluhdorn who inspired it." See more »

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BRUCIA LA TERRA
Music by Nino Rota
Sicilian lyrics by Giuseppe Rinaldi
Giuseppe Rinaldi courtesy of EMI Music Publishing Italy
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14 January 2000 | by (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) – See all my reviews

This film came out about the same time as Goodfellas, and pales in comparison with the Martin Scorsese effort. I know the two shouldn't be compared, but the fact that they are both gangster films begs some sort of comparison.

Does Godfather III "complete" Coppola's Godfather series? Only in the sense that we see what happens to Michael when he is an old man. In my opinion, we didn't really need to know that. To me, the Godfather films ended with Michael Corleone as a shell of a man after losing his wife and murdering his brother.

Besides, I'm of the view that the best American films of the 20th century were made in the 1970s.


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