"It's no laughing matter." Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin wants to achieve success in showbiz, by resorting to stalking his idol, a late night talk show host who craves his own privacy.

"No one stays at the top forever." Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.

"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955. Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.

"On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody." A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out.