in the 1970s based on the true story of Joseph D.Pistone an FBI agent who has infiltrated one of the major New York Mafia families with the name Donnie Brasco. He later on develops more affinity to the mafia life than the one he has when not undercover.
Pacino and Depp are a match made in acting heaven, riffing off each other with astonishing subtlety and wit.
Film4
June 20, 2009
It's tempting to think Pacino stopped trying sometime in the mid-1980s. But watch Lefty's elegiac final scene and you might conclude that it's not Al's ability that's dimmed, rather it's the imagination of casting directors that's grown stale.
Depp's tight, guarded performance is almost painful to watch, and Newell seems to have reined in the flamboyant Pacino, whose portrait of the mobster as a grumpy old man may be his best work in years.
