{"id":9641,"date":"2005-11-03T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/03\/donnie-brasco\/"},"modified":"2005-11-03T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T12:00:55","slug":"donnie-brasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/03\/donnie-brasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Donnie Brasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><!-- IMDB tt0119008 --><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/rummovie\/tt0119008.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Donnie Brasco (1997)\" \/>Finding movies from my wishlist is getting harder and harder and I get to watch lots of crap.  Sometimes though I get lucky.  Like today, when I finally watched &#8220;<a href =\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119008\">Donnie Brasco<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by:<\/strong> Mike Newell<br \/>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong> Crime, Drama, Thriller<br \/>\n<strong>Cast:<\/strong> Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche, Zeljko Ivanek, Gerry Becker, Robert Miano, Brian Tarantina, Rocco Sisto, Zach Grenier, Walt MacPherson, Ronnie Farer, Terry Serpico<br \/>\n<strong>IMDB raintg:<\/strong> 7.6<br \/>\n<strong>My rating:<\/strong> 7.0 [rate 7.0]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Overall this is an excellent movie with a lot of good acting.  I would still expect more from the movie that managed to get Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and Michael Madsen into one criminal gang.  More action could have made this into a better and more dynamic film.  But even as it is, I really enjoyed the drama and acting.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Finding movies from my wishlist is getting harder and harder and I get to watch lots of crap. Sometimes though I get lucky. Like today, when I finally watched &#8220;Donnie Brasco&#8220;. Directed by: Mike Newell Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Cast: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche, Zeljko Ivanek, Gerry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/03\/donnie-brasco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donnie Brasco<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[1625,1912,2024],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies","tag-al-pacino","tag-johnny-depp","tag-michael-madsen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8899,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/26\/nick-of-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":9641,"position":0},"title":"Nick of Time","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm lately very interested in the acting of Johny Depp. He's young, but he has a whole bunch of excellent movies. 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